On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:55 -0600, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > I had hight hopes for FC5, HELL, I was even going to install it > on my LAB machines without first testing it at home. > > But some visionary has turned it into crap. > > When doing an install, if the installer cant find a package you > used to get a message asking if you wanted it to try again. > Whenever I got this message, either rereading , or > popping the CD out, and cleaning it did the trick, next try > the installer was able to read the package and the install > continued, with a bit of a delay. > > Now some clown has 'fixed' this so that the only option you get > is to REBOOT. I dont need a button to reboot, I can manage that > quite easily with <CTL><ALT><DEL> or a power cycle. > > My guess is, that I have some machines where I will NEVER be > able to install FC5 due to this improvment. And Im not going > to try multiple times on the others, just to get a clean install. > > Sigh. > > On a slightly more positive note, is there any way around this > improvement? Does TEXT mode do the same thing? I would expect so. If possible, I'd do a network install instead, e.g. by NFS-exporting the ISO image. This avoids the need to burn the image to media at all, and since unreliable media is the issue here, the problem goes away. Paul.
