> -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Zygmont [mailto:jzygmont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:52 PM > To: Mike McGrath > Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: install keeps aborting > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Justin Zygmont [mailto:jzygmont@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:43 PM > >> To: Mike McGrath > >> Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases > >> Subject: RE: install keeps aborting > >> > >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Mike McGrath wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Justin Zygmont > >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:11 PM > >>>> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>> Subject: install keeps aborting > >>>> > >>>> Has anyone else noticed this? When I try doing a full > >> install on a > >>>> P-III with 256M of RAM, it goes fine until, just after anaconda > >>>> switches from ISO 2 to 3 andthen it just reboots. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> fedora-list mailing list > >>>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>> To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> I haven't noticed that, are you sure ISO 3 is not corrupt > >> in any way? > >> > >> i'm positive, I just checked again, and they all pass the sha1sum > >> check. > >> I notice even if I uncheck all package groups, and select only > >> development packages, it will abort. Yet, if I choose almost > >> everything else except that package group, it goes fine. > Do you know > >> if there is any way to debug this somehow? > >> > >> > >> > > > > One thing you could do is bypass the cd's all together. On > boot type: > > > > linux method=http://some.yum.mirror/path/to/fc4/ > > > > If you have a local mirror this will be lightning fast. > Method also > > takes an nfs mount and ftp I believe. > > I have been using the NFS install, I only used CD1 to boot > from. Even in text mode this problem exists. I'd like to > see if there was a way to get a gdb, but the install just > reboots itself. any ideas? maybe i'll just have to try the > anaconda-devel list and see what I can do. > > > That might not be a bad idea. You could also try starting the install with debug mode linux debug And I know that there is a linux syslogd But I have never tried it. -Mike