On Fri, 23 May 2008 20:01:59 +0000, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: [....] > So I put in the DVD from which I had successfully gotten F9 onto > three machines, and told XP to reboot. > > It has done the same thing -- gone through the first few steps, > only to sit there with a blank white screen. > > The monitor is new, a HP w2207h 1680x1050; but the other two PCs > manage with it, both behind a KVM switch and directly connected. And the > dual-boot machine is much the newest! > > What could be doing this, and how do I fix it?? I tried again, with the known good DVD and the known good external USB DVD-drive. It did it again, and I let it go all night. Next morning (today), still bare white screen. I rebooted, and established that it still did boot fine into F8 as well as XP. I tried it yet another time, using text mode. All went smoothly, up to the point of installing Tomboy -- which it shouldn't install in an upgrade, since that isn't in my F8. That hung for a very long time. Finally it gave me the Anaconda Bug, which I reported in another thread. I tried to send the dump to another machine on my LAN; that failed. I tried everything I could think of to get it to honor the choice it pretended to offer -- store to disk. It wouldn't even let me tell it to try. I told it debug. It printed a lot of lines fast -- ending with : IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error Then two or three blank lines. Then : Entering debugger... > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py(1217)_do_grab() -> new_fo_close() (Pdb) And there it sits. How can I tell anaconda *NOT* to try to install Tomboy? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
