On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:15 -0500, Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy wrote: > I'm trying to install Fedora 4 from a FTP Server which is on my > internal network. > I've downloaded the FC4 DVD ISO and burned into a disk. And it's fine > because I was able to use it to install on another computer without > problems (the check test at the beginning says the disc is ok). > > I shared the DVD disk via an FTP Server (IIS on Win2003) with > anonymous access. I was able to install on computer A (a virtual > machine on VMWare ESX) booting from the "boot.iso" disk > (/images/boot.iso on the DVD) and accesing de DVD disk via FTP. > > Then, in computer B (a real machine) I've tried to do the same thing. > The computer B get an IP address from the DHCP, connects to the FTP > server, get the netstg2.img image, ask me all the stuff (partioning, > root password, grub, RPMs to install, etc.) until it begins to > download the RPMs and installs it. But, after some minutes, and after > several RPMs installed, it just hangs up. It doesn't say nothing but > freezes. I've tried several times and always the same thing. > > Two times it stopped at kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm. > One time it stopped at gnome-python2-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm. > > On other computer, just to see if the disk was corrupted or the FTP > server was broken, I was able to connect to the FTP server and > download the two files. Last time I saw symptoms like that, it was due to dodgy memory on the machine being installed. Try running memtest on it. Paul.
