On September 20, 2004 12:19 am, Ben Brown wrote: > Maybe I am expressing some ignorance here, as I have never heard of > the "dreaded couldn't read from media" error... a search of > bugzilla.redhat.com didn't turn anything up, either. If there is a problem reading from the CD media during installation, you are SERIOUSLY screwed. This happened to me also, and as I was upgrading an existing FC1 installation, I lost everything. The reason: there is NO way to recover from the install blockage except to find new disks, which, in some instances, isn't possible to do in a reasonable time frame. This is a major flaw in design of the install program. > Assuming you are installing from CD-ROM... I would try 'linux > mediacheck' when you boot to the first CD, to test the installation > media. This is not a sufficient solution. In my case the frigging media check CLEARED as OK the CDs in question (later tests showed intermittent failure reports, but not consistent). The inability to recover or even exit, short of turning the power off (yes that's the only way out) from install errors like this is a ridiculous error. (Waiting for the hail of "you idiot, all you had to do was..." emails.) -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
