Installation errors

Claus Hetzer chetzer at isla.hawaii.edu
Mon Feb 14 20:06:00 UTC 2005


Aloha-

I am attempting to install Fedora Release 3 on a Gateway machine with an 
Athlon processor, 128MB RAM, 20GB hard disk.  I manage to get through 
all of the setup phases, filesystem allocation, package selection, etc. 
  Installation appears to be going swimmingly, but then I get the 
following error:

"There was an error installing tcsh-6.13-9.  This can indicate media 
failure, lack of disk space, and/or hardware problems.  This is a fatal 
error and your install will be aborted.  Please verify your media and 
try your install again."

I have gotten this message 3 times now, each time failing on a different 
package (tcsh, festival, and curses).  I verified all of my media before 
I started, all passed, and I have gotten this from 2 different 
installation disks.  The disk images also passed the md5sum test when I 
downloaded them.  Since the first failure I have done no custom 
filesystem partitioning, so I just have 1 giant partition that 
everything is being installed into and I don't think its a disk space 
problem.  The media pass the pre-install check.  Any other ideas as to 
what could be causing this problem?  This computer used to have Windows 
2000 on it and I ran a Norton check before I started, no disk problems 
were indicated.  Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Claus Hetzer





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