Installation of Red Hat 7.2 fails sometimes with a panic installing the last few packages on the second CD. Other times the installation completes but the file system has too many errors to allow the machine to boot. Hardware is as follows: Dell PowerEdge 1300 450Mhz PIII 256 Mb RAM 9GB IBM SCSI harddisk Adaptec 78xx SCSI controller ATI Rage XL 8 Mb PCI video adapter Intel NIC card This system has been runing RH 6.2 for a couple of year with no serious trouble. I have tried installing 6.2 and upgrading to 7.2 as well as clean install of 7.2. Neither was successful. I did a low level format of the hard disk with the Adaptec SCSI utitlities How Reproducible: 100%
I also have a 366 Celeron system with IDE harddisk that exhibts the same problem.
Further investigation shows that there is a CIOBUS parity error being generated as the partitions are being formatted. Any suggestions on a workaround for installing 7.2?
Do you have any debug error messages that you can attach? It's hard for me to diagnose the problem with the information I currently have. Also, did you check the md5sums of the ISOs?
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