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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0"><p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">On Mon, 03 May 2004 08:22:29 +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:<br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> I tried:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> 1. Installing off newly burned CDs - same problem 2. Installing via</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> local FTP from previously downloaded ISOs - same problem</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> 3. Installing via local FTP from rpms extracted from previously</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> downloded ISOs - same problem</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> 4. Installing via local from newly re-downloaded rpms - same problem</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> I'm fresh out of ideas - does anyone have any suggestions? :-/</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> On 1 May 2004 at 4:36, Robert C Paulsen Jr wrote:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:28, Edwin Humphries wrote:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> I'm installing fedora on a windows XP computer: it has a 40Gb</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> partition: 13Gb NTFS windows system partition, 102 boot Linux</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> partition, 11.9 Gb Linux root partition, 957 Mb Linux swap</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> partition, and 2 Fat32 shared data partitions.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> I've been consistently getting 2 errors:</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> 1. when partitioning, I get a "boot partition /boot may not</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> meet booting constraints of your system for you architecture".</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> Should not be a problem. It means that the partition containing</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> the /boot directory is beyond cylinder 1023. In the past this was</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> likely</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> to prevent the kernel from being reachable by the boot process.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> Should</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> be OK nowadays (but I don't know if dual boot with XP makes a</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> difference). In any case it will not prevent a successful install.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> 2. when installing packages (at random stages): "There was an</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> error</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> installing [package]. This can indicate media failure, lack of</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> disk</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> space, and/or hardware problems. This is a fatal error and your</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> install will be aborted. Please verify your media and try your</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> install again. Press the OK button to reboot your system." The</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:navy;">> media</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>> has checked out fine.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">>>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> Sounds like hardware/media problems. Does it always occur with</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> the same CD? Try to get a replacement CD.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> --</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';color:maroon;">>> Bob</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">Ive had similar problems when installing both RH9 and Fedora - the problem with my machine was a dodgy stick of RAM. Have you ran memtest86 - its on the fedora installation CD - just enter memtest86 at the boot prompt. If it comes back with loads of errors then either the stick of RAM is on its way out or the RAM settings in the BIOS are set incorrectly.</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">It sounds odd but I was also dual booting and Windows had no problems with the same RAM - mine just turned out to be the wrong settings in the BIOS.</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">HTH<br/>Jeff</SPAN></p>
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