I have a fairly ancient Compaq EN desktop (256 mb, 10 GB disk) that's running V6 just fine (at my volume level) and I'm trying to convert to V7. I've downloaded the software twice, burned two CDs, and it fails when it gets into the load process and says "verifying the package checksums," after sitting there for about 3 minutes. The only error message that pops up just says "installation failed, remove cd and reboot" etc.
I can't figure out if it's really failing the checksums, or something else. The cd burner works fine, I just burned and built a Ubuntu server from it. And the MD5s match, so it would appear that the download is OK; I don't understand how the MD5s can match and internal checksums not match!
Since this machine is deficient on memory per the spec, could it be blowing up there? I would think that the config check would object (as it does if you have too few network cards).
I've also tried running the install on another EN and it does exactly the same thing.
As an update, I downloaded another copy of the file, burned it on another machine, and same story.
The reason I think it may not be failing the checksum is that right after it spends some time computing checksums it flashes a message with the words " . . hard disk . . ." in it, and I can't read it. The specs say 10 GB and that's what I have, but it's actually 9.something usable, could this be causing it?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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