We decided that it is prolly a hardware issue and what better time to upgrade 
the hardware.  I ordered a new mobo and 256M of memory last night.  If it 
turns out to be the CDROM, those are pretty cheap to replace.

Jim

On Wednesday 09 January 2002 08:13, you wrote:
> sounds to me like either your cdrom drive is fubared or something is up
> with
> the IDE bus.
>
> try using another cdrom drive.
>
> also, I have mirrors both the mandrake 7.2 and 8.1 CD images here on my
> ftp server (pretorian.ath.cx:21 anonymous) You can try a network setup
> from here....
>
> Technomage
>
> Jim wrote:
> > WAIT!  I just tried to reload from an old M8.0 cd and got the same error.
> >  It says:
> >
> > An error occurred
> > nothing found while parsing /mnt/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.CD 1 Installation
> > (x86) (cdrom).cx.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what the heck is happening.  I am getting real
> > confused and running on this old P-133 isnt making things easier.
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