On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:00, RDD IT wrote: > Hello -- > > My first attempt to install FC2 failed during the installation of packages, > with an error message that a particular package could not be found. I > rebooted, and tested the installation media -- it failed. Stupid me, I > should have done that before. Burned a new CD, tested it -- failed. > Downloaded the ISO again, checked the MD5, burned a new CD, tested it -- > failed. Hmmm... Pop the CD in another machine, reboot, test the media -- > PASS! Switched out the CD-ROM drives between the two machines, so that the > one that had passed the CD was now in my FC2-ToBe machine. Boot up, test > media -- fail. > > So.....apparently FC2 does not like something about my machine's hardware..? > Have other people experienced similar issues? Are there known issues with > certain types of hardware -- particular hard drives, motherboards, CPUs, > etc. that FC2 is not compatible with? I can post more detailed specs on the > system later if needed (at work now)... There is nothing terribly outdated > about it, and it all worked fine on RH9.0. > > Thanks a lot for any help! You might try burning the CD at a lower speed. It is very interesting that the same drive that works in one system gets a media failure in the other. Do you have the drive setup as a master or slave? If it is a slave you might try setting it up as a master. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
