install keeps aborting

[Justin Zygmont]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Mike McGrath wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Zygmont [mailto:jzygmont at solarflow.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:43 PM
>> To: Mike McGrath
>> Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Subject: RE: install keeps aborting
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Mike McGrath wrote:
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>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Justin Zygmont
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:11 PM
>>>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: install keeps aborting
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else noticed this?  When I try doing a full
>> install on a
>>>> P-III with 256M of RAM, it goes fine until, just after anaconda
>>>> switches from ISO 2 to 3 andthen it just reboots.
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>>>
>>> I haven't noticed that, are you sure ISO 3 is not corrupt
>> in any way?
>>
>> i'm positive, I just checked again, and they all pass the
>> sha1sum check.
>> I notice even if I uncheck all package groups, and select
>> only development packages, it will abort.  Yet, if I choose
>> almost everything else except that package group, it goes
>> fine.  Do you know if there is any way to debug this somehow?
>>
>>
>>
>
> One thing you could do is bypass the cd's all together.  On boot type:
>
> linux method=http://some.yum.mirror/path/to/fc4/
>
> If you have a local mirror this will be lightning fast.  Method also
> takes an nfs mount and ftp I believe.

I have been using the NFS install, I only used CD1 to boot from.  Even in 
text mode this problem exists.  I'd like to see if there was a way to get 
a gdb, but the install just reboots itself.  any ideas?  maybe i'll just 
have to try the anaconda-devel list and see what I can do.