On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 21:32 -0500, Ken Latham wrote: > Sort of a newbie (to Fedora anyway). Please give what I say a little > latitude, I can't get details on the messages because in graphical or > text mode install I do not get enough time to read them... > > I download, md5 checked and burned the 4 CD set. FC3-i386-disk[1-4].iso > I put them through the mediacheck, just to be sure the burns were good > and they passed. > > I have no problems (text or graphical) until it starts install. > It write the install image to disk ok, but when it starts the recording > (?) RPM transactions (something like that). > I get a fatal error ... and I think it says ... "writing to linuxconf" > but its really hard to catch. > It starts spewing what looks like successful mount messages for all the > ext2 partitions it was supposed to convert to ext3. > Then it fails completely and tells me I am safe to reboot. > > Apparently the boot load did not get overwritten (even though I chose > this) because when I boot I get RedHat 7 telling me the root partition > is an unrecognized format (I assume it is ext3). > > My Linux (RH7) image is now kaput unless I do recovery which I'm hoping > to avoid. In this case, its root which is corrupted. Given any other > circumstances would be bad news, but since I want to overwrite it with > Fedora anyway ... > > Should I choose new install and then carefully choose my partitions to > wipe clean? > > Ken Can you give us a bit more info? What choices did you make when you did the install? Did it find your previous version and offer to upgrade, or did you choose fresh install? Thomas
