From: nobody@nowhere.co.uk   
      
   Paul wrote:   
      
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   > Erasing the Windows materials, is an excellent suggestion. And I use that   
   > a percentage of the time, when test installing materials.   
      
   So why does the booted DVD (of the Mint .iso) care about what is on the   
   HDD?  Surely the job of the installer is to initialise the nominated   
   media ready for the installation?  Apologies if this sounds like a   
   stupid question ...   
      
   > You *should* be able to boot the 21.3 DVD with *no* HDD wired up at all.   
   > Unplugging it, would allow you to examine a Live Session to your   
   satisfaction.   
      
   Tried that, exactly the same error   
   "Failed to execute /init (error -2)"   
   ... followed by a whole page of other stuff.   
   So is the DVD corrupt?   
      
   > It's just a question of whether that file in Casper directory is OK or not.   
   > My DVD (not really all that old), seemed to be doing a lot of retries,   
      
   This system takes 34 seconds from power up to showing the menu.  Easily   
   the first 20 seconds is the BIOS splash screen and verbose diagnostics.   
      
   > http://www.tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html   
      
   Might try this later.  But is there any way to examine the DVD for   
   integrity - in that its file system does contain the necessary Casper   
   directory and files?   
      
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   --   
   Graham J   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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