On Monday 17 April 2006 11:43, Carlos M. Gutierrez wrote: > I have had problems with the FC5 install as well. > > I first tried a FC5 CD install. The five CDs checksumed correctly, but > I got many -apparently random- IDE bus errors on that CD drive and > another one I replaced it with. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186512 > > It is possible that that machine has a subtle memory problem. (I have not > had time to run memtest on it yet) > > On previous releases, I used to get occasional CD errors too... but I was > able to hit OK on a dialog box to try the block read again and then it > would succeed and the install would continue happily. > > > I then tried an installation from a hard-disk partition but got hit by > this bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186729 > > > So, finally what I did was set up another machine on the network as a > repository, and did the install via http. That worked. > > > I have now also upgraded two machines from FC4 to FC5. I upgraded via yum, > and have to say that I am very happy -even surprised- with how well that > all went. In fact, the second one I upgraded remotely through an ssh > session. > > For that, I found the following very helpful: > > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq > http://www.makuchaku.info/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-fc4-to-fc5-via-yum > > Frankly, it is a great advantage to be able to update a remote machine in > such a way. yum rocks! :) > > Carlos M. Gutierrez > WEPA! Search Puerto Rico! > http://www.wepa.com/ > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Terry Polzin wrote: > > I have yet to get a NFS install to work, the client times out the server > > even when they are two feet away and the connection is 100mb the install > > fails. > > > > Options like ide=nodma don't appear to work so the CD-ROM drive times out > > due to use if DMA, and the install fails. > > > > These things worked great in FC2,3,4 why not now? > > > > I don't have the luxury of time to sit around and pump 5 CDs into all my > > machines. Finally found a solution that worked!
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