Does Installer need wired ethernet?

[rc]

If my machine (a Lenovo Y530 notebook) has no wired net connection when I attempt to install Mageia 2, the installation fails mysteriously.

With the LiveCD, the Installer brings up X11 only after several minutes. It displays a cursor but never gets far enough to launch KDE.

With the DVD, some packages fail to install.

If a wired network connection is a requirement for installation, can the Installer present a clear error message at its absence?

Thanks for all your great work on Mageia 2!

--RC

[martinw]

If when the installer asks you about additional installation media sources, you select "none", the installation is done entirely from the DVD - no network connection should be required. If you are getting error messages about individual packages failing to install, I would suspect a bad DVD. Did you check the md5sum of the downloaded ISO image before you burned the DVD? Did the DVD burner software run a similar check after burning the DVD?

To check whether the DVD is OK, create an ISO file from the DVD and run md5sum on the ISO file. The output of md5sum should match the published md5sum for the ISO image you downloaded. If you are a GNOME user, the "copy disk" function in Brasero can be used to create an ISO file from a DVD (sorry, I don't know what the equivalent is for KDE).

[wintpe]

in kde k3b will Analise the iso and present the checksum, before burning.

you can check your download there.

you could them use k3b to image the burned dvd and then do the same again, use it to start another, and it will present the m5sum.

the first dvd i burned of the download said it finished and was 100% complete, but when i looked at the disk, only half the disk was burned, that was a good ISO but a bad disk, so this is not uncommon.

regards peter

[doktor5000]

Which packages fail to install? And from your description, does installation succeed when you connect your laptop to wired net connection before the installation?
Maybe you should try a memory check, you can do that from the DVD from the boot menu to see whether maybe one of your RAM sticks is faulty or something like that.

Also it's probably ot a good idea to match topics, actually the issue with the live-cd is a totally different topic. And no, the installer doesn't need internet at all.