I give up on x86-64, its too busted.
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Apr 16 12:02:31 UTC 2006
Greetings;
What in hell does it take to actually install the x86-64 version of FC5
on an hp lappy?
I go thru the disk partitioning several times, finally manageing to
convince ntfs that it only can use 30GB of the disk. Then it takes a
chant like some black magic spell (linux noapic noapci irqpoll
pci=assign-busses lapic) to even get it to boot, and test, the install
dvd. The media test was successfull FWIW, apparently not much.
I get thru the prelims ok, but fighting with a synaptics touch pad with
a gain of about 70 million (1/4" of motion is off-screen in any
direction, any touch is a double-tap unless holding the left button
down already), and checkmark the other two boxes on the what do I
install screen, click ok and go take a nap. 10 minutes later I decide
its time for a bowl of cherrios & when I get back in here, the screen
is telling me the media is bad or we have a bug.
It cannot open the file 'setup-2.5.49-1.noarch'! Now as thats a pretty
important file for the whole install process, I don't find this at all
encouraging. Upsetting even...
So what am I supposed to do here folks, install the i386 version? Thats
NOT what I bought an amd64 equipt box for. And I've got about another
10 days to sort this, load it up and drive 1000 miles for a couple of
months.
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Cheers, Gene
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