From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: For both the graphical and text installs, everything is going well and then at apparently random points during package installation the install dies complaining of either bad media (NOT), lack of space (NOT) or bad hardware (unfortunately, nothing more descriptive). I have tried stripping the system down to just cpus, memory, disk, CD and framebuffer and have also tried on different machines. I have also tried the ACPI=off option when starting the install kernel, all to no avail. Install works fine on newer dual processor MBs and the install kernel should not be SMP anyway so I doubt it is the dual processors that are causing the problem. There is no useful information on any of the virtual consoles either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do the install (text or graphical) and wait - have never got past about 75% of the packages even on a rather minimal (1.2GB) install. 2. 3. Actual Results: Installer hangs and system must be rebooted. Expected Results: Install should have completed. Additional info:
Could you follow the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html to verify your media?
I have checked the media I used (with mediacheck) and it is fine. Additionally: 1. I have used the same media to successfully install on different systems both uni-processor and multi-processor. 2. I di the afore mentioned successful installs using the same physical CD drive (not just the same model) as the one used during the P2B-D install attempts which fail. Also, I have successfully installed and used RH9 on the same systems though I did not try FC1. If it is useful, I have FC1 media that I could try as well. If you believe there may be sporadic CD problems I could also do a network install I suppose after booting from a CD to get network drives (sadly, I believe the BIOS is too old to do a boot from a memory stick).
I had the same problem. I tried to install FC 2.B from a DVD which came with the german RedHat Magazine (4/2004?). After a crashed install i booted the comp with a Knoppix CD and looked into the install.log(?). I found out that some rpms (eg. k3b...) had a different version in compare to comps.rpm. I tried another install without any of the different rpms - this time it worked. After that i copied some files from the directory which contained comps.rpm (eg. hdlist, hdlist2 comps.xml) manually to their corresponding destination. These files have correct rpm-versions inside - after this i was able to install everything (except xemacs and ruby) by using the system-packagemanager. (Problem with xemacs and ruby is another bug)
Should be fixed now.