On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. ---- where the /boot partition is located should be of little consequence because the bootloader code needs to be on the first drive's mbr and grub can locate a /boot partition in any drive at that point. Craig
