Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 21:36, Jeff Vian wrote:At risk of adding to the list "noise" factor, this relatively linux-ignorant newbie to the list wants to make a reiterate a point made earlier on a different thread line.
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 13:54, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:19, Craig White wrote:
No, he's right on this one. Try creating a layout with /boot---
and 2) what it does show you is to be carved in stone, not---
re-arranged willy-nilly after you've clicked on the next
button.
it doesn't
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first, then /, then swap, then /home where DD creates all the
partitions. Every time I've tried without fdisk'ing the
partitions first, DD re-arranges the layout into some other
order. That is especially stupid in the case where you try to
make an identical layout on the next drive and RAID1 mirror the
partitions, then DD moves them so they end up paired with
something on the same drive. FC3 has some new options for
mirrors so it may not be as difficult as before, but we still
need some way to nail down a layout in DD that will be
repeatable in the resulting kickstart file.
I grabbed this one just to follow the thread, Jeff.
Anyway, I now have a repeat install failure, on the same file it upchucked over before I believe, this time while doing a full automatic install on /dev/hdb.
From the installer screen:
There was an error installing openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-10. 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.
From the end of the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log:
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/resource/svx64508.res; 41f03elf: cpio: MD5SUM mis-match.
There didn't seem to be anything related to that in the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log.syslog.
Now, this all points to a bum cd, but its been md5sum'd several times now. Chances are than a restart will work. Maybe. Its failed 2 out of three times through this loop now. I'll see if an older burner I have will fit without having to hack up the face of the box with a hacksaw tomorrow, it was working just fine in this box when I took it out to make room for a dvd burner last spring.
I tried three times to install FC-3 on a new 80 Gbyte WD hard drive relying on the installer's automatic disk partitioning facility before giving up and falling back to FC-2. Each attempt progressed a little further before it simply stalled. On the third try, the last thing displayed on the installer screen indicated that it was installing OpenOffice.org. Something over 15 minutes later I pushed the reset button next to the power switch.
Then I tried FC-2 which installed smoothly and uneventfully. Since I still wanted at that time to install FC-3 I tried upgrading the FC-2 installation to an FC-3 system using the same FC-3 CDs I had used in trying to install FC-3 from scratch. That worked and FC-3 installed uneventfully. (I have since wiped out that installation and re-installed FC-2 because I did not care for the FC-3 desktop, was having difficulty connecting with my ISP, and wanted to stick with the CUPS printing system. )
The FC-3 installation ISOs I used were downloaded to, check sumed, burned on CDs and the CDs check sumed on my old RH 8 system. The CDs were check sumed again in the first installation attempt on the new hard disk. The fact that they were suitable for upgrading an FC-2 system to FC-3 suggests to me that they are not "bad CDs". Rather, it seems more probable that something is amiss in the installation program when it is called upon for a complete install that includes disk partitioning and/or Grub installation. That "amiss" might be in Anaconda or Disk Druid or the interface between the two.
I do not have any error messages or system logs to share with you, but my experience lends support to what Gene (and some others) have been saying.
FWIW, my system is built on a Gigabyte GA-7VAX motherboard with 256MB PC3200 DDR400 ram, AMD Athalon 2100 processor, 80 GB Western Digital hard drive, one CDR, one CDRW, 3.5" floppy.
My system consists of
