Exastperating experience with FC2

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> During the last 2 weeks I have had a really exasperating (but
> educational experience) in trying to install FC2, and I seek comments.

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> There is something about FC2 that is not very friendly. Does anyone
> know what it is? Remember that these CD-s successfully installed FC2
> on our Dells.

FC2 seemed to install fine on my dell, but on the off chance that 
you're having media problems, you can try what i did with FC3-t1 
(which a *number* of people reported having mysterious media problems 
with).

i was lucky enough to have another system to which i downloaded the 
images, md5sum'ed them, and then just NFS exported that directory and 
did an NFS install.  at the very least, you can eliminate media 
problems as a cause for grief, although i'm sure you thought of that 
long ago.

(also, once you start the NFS install, hey, you can just walk away 
without hanging out waiting to swap CDs. :-)

rday

p.s.  did you turn off DMA?  lots of folks fixed their install 
problems by doing that.