Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62693
"Skip" option not available for packages not readable on an installation CD difficult to be read
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: I was installing from some CDs hard to be correctly read; a package on the CD 2 was not readable, but no "skip" option was available on the error dialog box, the only option was to retry... ... indefinitely. The only viable option has been to repeat the installation with another set of CDs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Expected Results: The installation program should allow to complete the installation skipping a package which cannot be read on an installation CD; it could be added "by hand" at the end of the installation, after the installation, it should not be mandatory to completely repeat the installation. Additional info:
It is not possible to skip a package on a CD install - rpm usually has fd's open on the CD so we cannot umount it and eject it, and continuing in the middle of a transaction set is usually going to end up with a unusable system anyways. You are best redoing the installation with CDs which have been checked via the mediacheck option.