On 6/1/07, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I have been trying to install Fedora 7 on an > > older > > > machine AMD-1800XP, 512MB Ram and it has not > > worked. > > > Media check passes and I get a bug message from > > > anaconda. The machine worked with FC3 and > kernel > > > parameter acpi=ht, because it did not shutdown > > > properly. > > > > > > Here I will attach the anaconda message > > > > <snip> > > > > Hi Antonio, > > > > Do you have some information on at which point > this > > happened? > > Otherwise us non-programmer mortals won't be able > to > > help. > > > > For example, was it during the partitioning bit of > > Anaconda? > > If so, what was your drive layout and what were > you > > doing? > > > > P.S. I also had a crash and was able to solve it. > > Check the thread > > "Weird disk problem" (I later added " [solved]". > > > > Guus. > > -- > > A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands, > > user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org) > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > It has happened after the partitioning scheme. I > let > it do its thing, use free space and then all of a > sudden, this happened. > > I later tried again and I got the following: > > Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to > a > missing > repodata directory. Please ensure that your install > tree has been correctly generated cannot open/read > repond.xml file for repository: > anaconda-base-200705271038.i386 > > I also tried a text-based install and it does not > want > to work either. It bombs out with the same message. > > > Regards, > > Antonio > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Need a vacation? Get great deals > to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > http://travel.yahoo.com/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Sent to Bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242194 If this is a duplicate of another, or others are having the same troubles, please add your comments. Regards, Antonio
Have you disabled dma, i.e. "ide=nodma "?
