On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jack Aboutboul wrote: >> I get 80%+ through installation of a default desktop installation, and >> the installation stops at "The package xsri-2.1.0-6 cammnot be opened. >> This is due to a missing file or perhaps a corrup package..." >> >> At this point the install will let me retry forever, but not skip the >> package and continue on. Is there any way to work around this? The >> md5sums of the .iso files are correct, so I don't think I've had a >> download problem. >> >> Detail: >> I happen to be installing the software under VMWare (version 3.0, >> running on a Windows XP host). I've swapped the .iso files by >> suspending the virtual machine and "swapping cdroms" by renaming the >> .iso files on my hard drive. I've used this technique many times, and >> it worked for 20 minutes following the switch, so I don't think this >> is likely to be the problem. >> >> Alan > >Alan, > > I've had this problem too, and never got it figured out. I think its >because you need to have vmware-tools installed before you can install >xsri, however, thats not possible to install unless the dist install is >complete. Officially, installing under vmware is not supported. Please >keep me updated as this is a bug I would love to squash. I suspect the media is bad. Please run mediacheck and test your media first. I don't see why this problem would occur only under VMware personally. Even though we don't support VMware officially, problems like this still shouldn't happen. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
