[NBLUG/talk] Fedora Install help

[Walter Coole]

Please ask more questions, stupid or not: the process of answering them
might lead to a decrease in stupidity (particularly mine).

The Fedora 8 disk is labelled Fedora 8 x86_64.  It has 4630 items,
totaling 3.6 GB.  It's an iso9660 filesystem.

I downloaded it from the torrent with uTorrent and wrote it onto TDK DVD-R
media with Nero 7 Essentials on a LiteOn USB DVD drive.  It's 3.6 GB long
(3,876,407296). FWIW, the Fedora 7 version (which gives identical
symptoms) passes the FC6 mediacheck, running on the hardware I'm trying to
install to.  I'm thinking this makes a data transfer error unlikely.

The drive I'm installing from is a brand-new internal drive.  FC6 was
installed via the previous CDROM that it replaced.

I've omitted discussing the various other ways I've tried, mainly because
most of them were obviously mistakes, since corrected.

> From: "Jack Smith" <jack.delbert at gmail.com>
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> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Walter Coole <wcoole at bcoole.com> wrote:
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>> I tried again with Fedora 8 with an identical result.
>>
>> There was apparently some confusion, this is a fresh install, it just
>> happens to be on a systems that previously had FC6 installed on it.  The
>> selection that is offered on the initial screen is "Update or Install on
>> an Existing System", so that's the one I used (I've tried several
>> others, but none seem to work any better).
>>
>
> I think the same thing happened to me once but I can't remember why, so
> I'm
> going to ask some stupid questions.
>
> What does your install disk look like?  Mine is a DVD with 4630 items,
> totaling 3.6 GB and named "Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD".  The filesystem type is
> iso9660.
>
> Are you installing from an internal DVD drive?  An external SCSI drive
> won't
> work.
>
> You have Redhat installed now, is the brand of DVD the same?  Sometimes
> DVD
> brands and drives just don't work together.  FYI, I have a Verbatim DVD+R
> disk and a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-162L drive.
>
> I wish I could remember exactly what I did wrong but I can't.  I've only
> done a scratch install twice in my life and I didn't take notes on how I
> did
> it wrong.  I have some vague feeling that I downloaded the image and then
> used K3b to burn the disk and did it wrong but...
>
> --
> Jack Smith
>
> English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
> languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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