From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: I understand this is a beta but it is a public beta which means it should have gone through some method of testing to get to this point. Have you actually tried to install skipjack? I have 3 times now and have had to start over because of missing packages. all ones having some cvs snapshot build in the name. kde-laptop and kdf come to mind as a couple that have stopped my progress so far. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to install... I would suggest all packages install to track down all misnamed/missing etc packages as there are several. Actual Results: got a dialog box that said it couldn't find the files, with no alternate course of action, even though every time it has happend it is not a critical package, a skip would be VERY nice at that point. Instead of going through the 3 disk install process that takes forever. Expected Results: install finished Additional info: Please if you are not going to provide all packages you offer for install at least offer a skip when the installer fails to get them, I would rather skip them and attempt to recover from the situation. The worst that happens is the os won't boot when you finish and you start over anyway...
We've done a number of everything installs. Have you checked the media that you are installing from with the built-in media check?
I forgot to mention the media checker, I did run the media checker and it would never return. I gave it a good bit of time to sit there but nothing would ever happen.
It takes quite a while, especially if you're getting read errors on your CD. If you switch to tty4, you should see kernel messages and if you see read errors, then you're very likely hitting problems with reading your CD media.
Cool... I burned everything again and threw away the spindle I was using previously, I guess I will never buy the 'on special' cd-s at BestBuy ever again ;) It seems to work fine now, a couple of suggestions. Possibly have the media checker report that it's having problems with the media, so you know whats going on without leaving the installer as newer users won't know that is even an option. 2nd suggestion has already been mentioned, if possible a skip option on packages that fail that are not 'critical' to the install completing. I would rather be without xcalc than restart my install for example... P.S. - Thanks for the help