On Wednesday 10 May 2006 1:55 am, 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? > > -- > Reg.Clemens > reg@xxxxxxx > If you still have the original iso files from which you burnt the install cds, I can shoot a short bash script your way that will build an install tree for you from those images. Let me know, DP > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ====================================================== David-Paul Niner, RHCE Orange Park, Florida United States of America dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Public Key and fingerprint for GPG key 1FCE01A2 available from http://www.dpniner.name Free/Busy Information published at: https://horde.dpniner.name/kronolith/fb.php?u=dpniner ====================================================== -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
