Installation of Fedora Core 4

[Tim]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:50 -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> I don't know how anyone can even install core 4, whenever I try to 
> use NFS or harddrive install, and select custom packages with over 2GB
> packages selected, the installer starts to proceed, then aborts -
> caught signal 15 exiting immediately, or just reboots without any
> error message at all.  I tried on different computers, and even with
> the core 4.2 isos, and still.  I can't locate what the problem is.
> Has anyone else noticed this at all?

Similar things.  I've done CD-ROM installs, and individual RPM files via
HTTP server installs.

If I spend 15 minutes, or more, picking what packages I want installed
(to avoid getting lots of rubbish shovelled on that I don't want),
there's a good chance that it'll bomb out as it gets ready to install.
If I try it again it may or may not work.  I can't see a pattern to it,
other than probably bad scripting in the install routine.  I get sick of
having my time wasted by this.

On one system I got so sick of that I just did a minimal install, then
went through hell trying to add packages to a text-only system.  On
others I've just given up and done a desktop or server install.  They
sometimes bomb out, too, but I don't waste even more of my time picking
packages all over again when it mightn't work.  Though I, then, have the
fun task of removing extraneous rubbish after the install.

I can see good reasons for another install option:  A bare bones
graphical *system*.  The OS, *NO* applications, no ancillary files, just
enough to browse files and install applications.  At least, then, you're
in a position to get the best speed out of your drives (CD-ROMs are damn
slow, worse if PIO and UDMA modes are set to minimum) when it comes to
installs (whether that be directly from the CDs, ISOs, or copies of them
on your hard drive), and you could have easier to use install GUI
programs.

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