Antonio Olivares 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.
...
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.
If the machine still runs your previous version, can you {just for a
giggle} mount the DVD and copy the complete contents to your hard disk ?
Is this successful ?
It may be your DVD drive is getting 'weak' in old age.
In fact, if you have the space and a partition {that does not need to be
formatted} that can hold the size of the dvd.iso image, perhaps you can
do a "hard disk" method installation ?
DaveT.
