FC1: aborting installation while reading RPMs

[Daniel]

Just to supply a missing information: maim memory on AMD XP is DDR 333
 
Daniel wrote:

> HI  everybody,
>
> I'm trying to  install  Fedora Core 1 on  an AMD XP 2400 in an ASUS  
> motherboard A7V8X-MX with 512 MB DDR memory, using NVIDIA GEFORCE 4 MX 
> 440-8x, with 64 MB DDR memory.  I'm using   yarrow -i386 (is that 
> correct? I'm supposing it is).
> I've been trying to install it and probably by luck I could get a 
> first clean installation without any read errors on the CDs. 
> Unfortunately I messed up that installation and I resolved to try 
> again choosing    a complete installation (selecting all RPMs) and now 
> I always get  the message "aborting  due read errors.. This is a 
> severe error that may mean insuficcient space on disk or a damaged 
> media , etc.. Your machine is ready to reboot now"
> Well, first:
> 1) all CDs were tested and got a PASS message at the beginning of the 
> installations
> 2) I'm using a  SEAGATE  Barracuda 40GB  partitioned a  20MB  with 
> Windows XP Professional and  three  smaller partitions reserved to 
> linux (a 196 MB reserved to /boot, a 14 GB to /, a 4 GB to /home and 
> some 512MB to swap, the last two logical partitions )
> 3) the CDs are being read in a LG 52 MAx CD reader
> 4) I've downloaded  the iso images and written them to disk (a 
> SEAGATE  20 GB in FAT32), as a secondary  slave  and  copied  
> bootdisk.img  with  rawrite  and  started the installation now from 
> dikette and a hard drive install a and received the same message.
> To clear out my efforts:
> 0  I've  tried   graphics and text non installations receiving the 
> same message
> 1)  the mesage occurs on installation phase when the program is 
> reading and installing the RPMs
> 2)  the same message occurs each time in a different  rpm  (or CD)
> 3)  I tried to do a smaller installation  and got the same error 
> mesage (each time is in a different RPM)
> 4) I went to the  BIOS  settings and tried many configuration changes:
>      i) turn off caches (L1 and L2)
>     ii) slow down  CPU external clock to 100 MHz (this was strapped on 
> the motherboard)
>     iii) slow down the DRAM frequency     iv) turn off  DMA transfer 
> to all disks (it seems the installer doesn't care about this  setting 
> on BIOS because messages state it is using UDMA to disks)
>      v) change the 80 pins flat disk cable to a 40 pins  on IDE1 ( 
> IDE2 is using a 40 pin flat cable)
>      vi) using  IDE1 (with 80 pins  flat cable)  only ( in a hard 
> drive installation)
>           (now I will try to use a 40 pins cable and slow down the 
> machine as much as possible)
>    Since I have a small network with four computers, I could install  
> the same FEDORA Core 1 in a Pentium 4 whith  128MB rambus from the CDs 
> withoutt any problem  with all RPMs and it is working fine.
>    As an observation, on the AMD XP machine I receive some messages 
> informing  about errors while reading CDs during XP instalations. The 
> Windows XP installer just inform me about each one of them and  asks 
> me what I want it to do: I just say it should retry reading the CD, 
> the file is read  and it goes on. It's common to receive  one to three 
> messages  like these in a normal Windows XP installation. All files 
> are copied and none get lost. After the XP installation I never 
> received  amesage like that .while reading a CD. But by what I've 
> exposed, the problem is not duew the CDS since it occurs in a hard 
> drive installation.
>
>      Can anyone help me with some information or suggestion  because 
> I'm  stoped on this machine for many days without  getting Fedora Core 
> installed? By the way, on the same machine , Windows XP Professional 
> works fine.  (Well,   I'm still betting on Linux)
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
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