It turned out to be a problem with the graphical installer - text install worked OK (but not great - installed Gnome instead of KDE which I'd selected, and no option to select individual packages) On 3 May 2004 at 9:20, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd edwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051
