On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:48:03AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm installing fedora on a windows XP computer: it has a 40Gb > partition: 13Gb NTFS windows system partition, 102 boot Linux > partition, 11.9 Gb Linux root partition, 957 Mb Linux swap partition, > and 2 Fat32 shared data partitions. > > I've been consistently getting 2 errors: > > 1. When partitioning, I get a "boot partition /boot may not meet > booting constraints of your system for you architecture". This is not really a problem especially if you are using the grun boot loader. > > 2. when installing packages (at random stages): "There was an error > installing [package]. This can indicate media failure, lack of disk > space, and/or hardware problems. This is a fatal error and your > install will be aborted. Please verify your media and try your > install again. Press the OK button to reboot your system." The media > has checked out fine. > > To try and resolve this problem, I've tried: > > 1. Installing off CD with "linux allowcddma" - same problem > > 2. Installing off CD with "linux ide=nodma" - same problem > > 3. Installing off newly burned CDs - same problem > > 4. Installing via local FTP from previously downloaded ISOs - same > problem > > 5. Installing via local FTP from rpms extracted from previously > downloded ISOs - same problem > > 6. Installing via local from newly re-downloaded rpms - same > problem > > I'm fresh out of ideas - does anyone have any suggestions? :-/ > The rest of these tries seem to indicate a hardware failure. I assume some of the partitions are extended partitions. Why do you have so many? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
