FC1 upgrade on Thinkpad R30 fails

[Maurice F. Piller]

Hi Tom,
I too experienced the same problem trying to install FC1 on an IBM Thinkpad
R30.  Although my CD's were good, the media check failed on the R30.  When I
proceeded to install I got the out of disk space error or a failure on a
certain package.  
Also, as you mentioned, all previous linux installations went well on this
machine.

I finally went the network install route, booted from CD1, typed linux
askmethod at the prompt, and did a successful network install.  I don't know
why the CD install failed.

Regards,
Chip

>Tom Wood wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> Tried today to upgrade a Thinkpad R30 to FC1. This machine has to date
> upgraded without a hitch from Valhalla through Shrike.  Now, when the
> package install starts, the "setup-2.5.something" RPM, which is the
> first one it attempts to load, fails, stating that either the media is
> bad, the destination disk is out of space, or there's a hardware
fault. 
> I believe none of the above is the cause.  I've upgraded the BIOS to
the
> latest and greatest (about 10 months old now), but still have no luck.
> I've tried turning on CD DMA (forgot the boot command line switch for
> this) and ide=nodma, and both give the same results?  The
> <crtl><alt><F3> virtual console gives no indication of the failure's
> cause.
> 
> Suggestions?