install keeps aborting

[Mike McGrath]

> -----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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> >> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Justin Zygmont
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:11 PM
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> >> 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.

	-Mike