Assertion error installing FC3

[WipeOut]

When you see the error just hit "cancel" and the install continues.. At 
least it did for me.. :)

Later..

Rick Lim wrote:

>Bob, MUCH appreciated, I'll give it a try tonite, it has been driving me
>crazy as I have done a couple of clean installs on different machines with
>out this same error.
>
>Thanks again. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Parnass, AJ9S [mailto:usenet4 at parnass.org] 
>Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:44 AM
>To: Rick Lim
>Subject: re: Assertion error installing FC3
>
>Rick,
>
>I read your posting in the Fedora-list archives.
>I don't subscribe, so I can't post this response there.
>
>When I upgraded from FC2 to FC3, I saw the same
>error messages you saw about:
>
> "Assertion(heads>0) at disk_dos.c: 485 in function probe_partion_for_geom()
>failure."
>
>A web search found an explanation and a solution at:
> 
>    <http://lwn.net/Articles/86835>
>
>Apparently, the initial installation of FC2 damaged the disk
>geometry due to a bug in FC2.   This interferes with upgrading
>to FC3.
>
>I applied the fix described in the LWN article and was able to
>upgrade successfully from FC2 to FC3.
>
>Hope this helps.
>  
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