Totally Peeved-Fedora3 Upfrade Errors

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> On Thursday 17 February 2005 03:13 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 22:57 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
>>
>>>Mark Sargent wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>truly annoyed with this distro. Here is my situation. I attempted CD
>>>>based upgrade from 2 to 3 just b4. Got to a certain package, which gave
>>>>the following error, ttfonts-ja-1.2-36 cannot be opened-missing/corrupt
>>>>file/package-corrupt CD media/drive can't read media(paraphrased
>>>>message)
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>Before starting the upgrade, did you do a "media check" to make sure all
>>>the CDs were correct?
>>
>>You might want to retry the upgrade but specify "linux nocddma" at the
>>boot prompt. That might work better for you.
>>
>>Paul.
>>--
>>Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Paul, what does that actually do, if ya wouldn't mind elaborating.? Cheers.

It turns off DMA access for the CD drives. It'll be slower but it 
*might* alleviate the problem you're having.

Paul.