On Monday 06 November 2006 13:13, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, Everyone > I am having this strange problem installing Fedora Core 6 on a system that > has an AOpen mainboard and about 384MB of RAM. Here is where things stand > for now: > 1. I ran sha1sum on the iso's on the machine that I burned them on. All > appeared to be well. > 2. I burned the images to cd's (Memorex 52x media, though I burned all the > discs at 16x) > 3. Took all the discs to the place where the system is located. Put disc > 1 in the drive and rebooted, typing the following at the prompt: "linux > mediacheck ide=nodma" > 4. Tested all 5 discs, all passed except number 3. I then proceeded to > burn a new copy of that disc. Re-ran "mediacheck" on it (still booted > with the ide=nodma option) and it passed. > 5. Rebooted the computer. At the prompt I typed the following: "linux > ide=nodma" > 6. Selected my packages and clicked the appropriate button. All still > seems to be going fine. No dependency issues at all. > 7. After clicking whatever button came next, the installation appeared to > proceed nicely. Formatted all partitions that I told it to format. > 8. Here's where things start to go bad. The following message pops up as > expected: "Starting install process. This may take several minutes..." > 9. Then I get a prompt to put in Disc 2, which I do. Then I am asked, in > order, for discs 3-5. > 10. Then I get a screen that is titled "Exception Occurred" It starts out > like this: "An unhandled exception has occured." > 11. The main error, repeated multiple times, reads something like this: > "error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open:DB_VERSION_MISMATCH:Database > environment version mismatch. > error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm" > > This strikes me as kind of odd for three reasons: > a. The original iso's passed the sha1sum check. > b. With ide=nodma appropriately passed, 1,2 & 4,5 passed. My re-try at > burning disc 3 appeared to pass as well. > c. The big thing that makes it seem odd: installing Fedora usually works > without any flaws whatsoever. I even have FC6 running on our system at > home, installed from the same images (hard drive install) So I'm not used > to this :) > > I just had another idea, but I needed to get this down while I was > inspired. I'll let you know what happened with my idea. > > Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated, > Steven P. Ulrick When you were asked if you wanted to add any repos, did you opt to add Extras? Something similar happened to me. I started again and didn't ask for Extras and all was fine. Anne
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