mcstayinskool
8th June 2004, 07:34 AM
I'm trying to get FC2 installed on my Thinkpad T20, and I've hit a wall with every different upgrade/install flavor I've tried. I'm not giving up, but would like to ask the Forum for advice on my next route of attack.
The problem is this: I can't get through an install without an rpm failing to get installed due to a "media error". When this occurs, anaconda gives me one option-- reboot and start over. This is a situation similar to what is described in this thread.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3026
I ranted about the absurdity of the "click OK to reboot" dialog box in that thread, so I'll spare you here...
When I'm installing via CD, the failure happens in different spots, but always on Disc 1. Sometimes it's on installing aspell, sometimes vim-enhanced, sometimes samba-client. You get the idea.
I was suspicious that my CD-ROM drive was the culprit of the failure, so I had the bright idea of unpacking the ISOs on to a desktop on my home LAN's webspace and do a net install. Things looked great on this install, but then, *gasp*, deep into the install it hit the same failure, this time on installing postgres-test. I tried two more times on the net install and it failed both times--on the same rpm. My desktop HD is fine, and I don't believe that there is an issue with the postgres rpm there. The FC2 installer states that I may have run out of HD space, but the partition I'm installing on is 14GB in size, and the "everything" install says I only need 6ishGB. Is there any reason that during a net install I'd need more local HD space (i.e., are local copies of the rpms stored temporarily)?
What I'm considering doing at this point is this:
do a fairly minimal install (I had been doing the "everything" install on all previous attempts), then try to get the rest of the goodies via yum or apt. Anyone know if there is a good way to configure yum to "grab everything" for FC2 after doing a minimum install?
Hopefully someone can help out here...I'm still excited to check out FC2, esp. new Gnome and Kernel stuff. The FC2 installer, however, is fundamentally flawed.
The problem is this: I can't get through an install without an rpm failing to get installed due to a "media error". When this occurs, anaconda gives me one option-- reboot and start over. This is a situation similar to what is described in this thread.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3026
I ranted about the absurdity of the "click OK to reboot" dialog box in that thread, so I'll spare you here...
When I'm installing via CD, the failure happens in different spots, but always on Disc 1. Sometimes it's on installing aspell, sometimes vim-enhanced, sometimes samba-client. You get the idea.
I was suspicious that my CD-ROM drive was the culprit of the failure, so I had the bright idea of unpacking the ISOs on to a desktop on my home LAN's webspace and do a net install. Things looked great on this install, but then, *gasp*, deep into the install it hit the same failure, this time on installing postgres-test. I tried two more times on the net install and it failed both times--on the same rpm. My desktop HD is fine, and I don't believe that there is an issue with the postgres rpm there. The FC2 installer states that I may have run out of HD space, but the partition I'm installing on is 14GB in size, and the "everything" install says I only need 6ishGB. Is there any reason that during a net install I'd need more local HD space (i.e., are local copies of the rpms stored temporarily)?
What I'm considering doing at this point is this:
do a fairly minimal install (I had been doing the "everything" install on all previous attempts), then try to get the rest of the goodies via yum or apt. Anyone know if there is a good way to configure yum to "grab everything" for FC2 after doing a minimum install?
Hopefully someone can help out here...I'm still excited to check out FC2, esp. new Gnome and Kernel stuff. The FC2 installer, however, is fundamentally flawed.
