Bug 454317

Summary: live CD install stalls & fails
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <budden>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: hdegoede
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Description Need Real Name 2008-07-07 17:03:36 UTC 
Description of problem: Live CD install to hard drive; stalls and times out. 
Progress bar indicates 2/3 way through copying image.  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 live
install CD (burned from downloaded .iso).  


How reproducible: repeated three times with same visible results.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  boot from live CD
2.  follow Install to Hard Drive dots
3.
  
Actual results: stall, timeout


Expected results: installation


Additional info: Hardware is aging Dell Optiplex GX270 with 80G hard drive. 
This model has a CD and a DVD drive.  Since the DVD installation failed, I was
trying the live-CD installation route.  

Machine was previously running Fedora 7 which installed from CD/DVD properly
(with some coaxing since it doesn't boot from DVD).
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2008-07-07 17:03:36 UTC 
Created attachment 311194 [details]
attachment is the installerror file created by anaconda
Comment 2 Andy Lindeberg 2008-07-07 17:24:27 UTC 
We don't support upgrading directly from F7 to F9. Can you try installing F8 and
then F9, and see if that works?
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2008-07-07 22:23:32 UTC 
This was a slick install, not an upgrade.  Fedora 9 live CD does not support
upgrade from anything.  The installation blows away all partitions and starts over.
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2008-07-08 16:01:30 UTC 
This was a slick install, not an upgrade.  Fedora 9 live CD does not support
upgrade from anything.  The installation blows away all partitions and starts over.
Comment 5 Hans de Goede 2008-07-20 21:34:27 UTC 
Quoting from the log you've attached:
"OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error"

Which matches with my suspicion after reading your description, most likely
either you have a bad drive or the disc is bad. Did you boot the CD from the DVD
drive or from the CD-drive? as your DVD install also failed, maybe your DVD
driver is bad.

Some steps you can take:
-the live CD boot menu also has a verify CD boot option try that
-try installing again, when it fails, open a console / terminal and type dmesg,
 you will probably see lots of io errors being reported by the kernel, if this
 is the case it definitely is a bad drive or disc.