On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just tried to install F8 on a fresh 400GB sata disk, on an offboard > controller. I configured it so as not to touch the existing drives with FC6 > installed on them so that I had some continuity and could back up to Fc6 as I > am now. > > Everything was marching along at a good rate, with basically an everything > install, 1266 packages IIRC. > > At the 805th package it bailed out. The package was: > > xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-2.fc8.i386.rpm > > It either could not be opened or was missing. The media did pass checksum, > and the network was alive & well, the install getting much of its info from > there according to the traffic on my router. > > Next? ---- Personally, I'd start over. you probably could do a reboot with all the same install parameters and it would probably continue on from where it left off, you could probably do a linux rescue boot, chroot, manually finish (at least 'yum groupupdate Base') and run grub-install but I would want a new/clean install to start with disrepair. Craig
