On Friday 14 December 2007, Craig White wrote: >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 I just found a newer bios for my now elderly Biostar M7NCD Pro mobo, and will put that in first & then try it tomorrow when the old fart is a little fresher. Hopefully that will make an offboard /boot partition possible. Thanks Craig. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
