Re: Totally Peeved-Fedora3 Upfrade Errors

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On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:13 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Mark Sargent wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:13 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:57 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
> >>>Mark Sargent wrote:
> >>>>Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>>truly annoyed with this distro. Here is my situation. I attempted CD
> >>>>based upgrade from 2 to 3 just b4. Got to a certain package, which gave
> >>>>the following error, ttfonts-ja-1.2-36 cannot be opened-missing/corrupt
> >>>>file/package-corrupt CD media/drive can't read media(paraphrased
> >>>>message)
> >>>
> >>>[snip]
> >>>
> >>>Before starting the upgrade, did you do a "media check" to make sure all
> >>>the CDs were correct?
> >>
> >>You might want to retry the upgrade but specify "linux nocddma" at the
> >>boot prompt. That might work better for you.
> >>
> >>Paul.
> >>--
> >>Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Paul, what does that actually do, if ya wouldn't mind elaborating.?
> > Cheers.
>
> It turns off DMA access for the CD drives. It'll be slower but it
> *might* alleviate the problem you're having.
>
> Paul.

Hi All,

thanx, you everywhere, Paul. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.


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