Philip Walden wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Philip Walden wrote:
Restarted and this time I got several hours into the install to "5 of
864 completed Installing glibc-common - 2.6-3.i386". Same thing, no
disk
activity, the cursor would not track and the spinning wait cursor
froze.
At this point I suspect my original FC6 is busted. Any suggestions
before I start with a complete, from scratch including disk reformat?
Well, is FC-6 "busted" or not?
I mean, will the system re-boot?
My experience is that if an upgrade fails
the system usually runs OK.
I had at least 3 failures like this while upgrading an Athlon-64
machine,
and it seems to run fine.
You are right, I was able to reboot on the original FC6 install. Sorry
it was late and I just tried it today. I have never had a install
problem before, so I had no idea what the result was going to be.
I guess I am being a gluten for punishment, I tried again. This time
it stuck quickly at the "Checking dependencies" again.
I am not installing on a weird system, I think. It's a older i386 HP
OB6000 laptop. I had no problems installing FC4, and upgrading to FC5
and FC6 on this system.
This is the first time I have had to try the http source install as
this thing's DVD-ROM will not recognize my DVD+R or DVD-R disks. Could
the http sourcing cause this problem? Should I just keep trying until
I get it going? The previous run was about 4-5 hours into the install
when it hung.
So I tried again. This time I am stuck. I insert the boot disk. When I
get to the specify http source screen and press ok, it displays a
loading image message and then the screen scrolls over with garbage text
(looking like Russian cryllic) and stops. I try again, same thing. I
unmount and remount the iso on the http server, and try again. Now I get
the Russian text after selecting the Install or upgrade option in the
Welcome to Fedora screen, nevermind selecting the language, keyboard and
http source.
I try again, this time no Russian, but it hangs on "Running anaconda".
Looks like FC7 just does not like this box. I can't be a hardware
failure, as I can use this thing "until the cows come home" with FC6.
