General disappointment with the FC5 installer

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Tue Apr 18 20:14:37 UTC 2006


On Monday 17 April 2006 11:43, Carlos M. Gutierrez wrote:
> I have had problems with the FC5 install as well.
>
> I first tried a FC5 CD install. The five CDs checksumed correctly, but
> I got many -apparently random- IDE bus errors on that CD drive and
> another one I replaced it with.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186512
>
> It is possible that that machine has a subtle memory problem. (I have not
> had time to run memtest on it yet)
>
> On previous releases, I used to get occasional CD errors too... but I was
> able to hit OK on a dialog box to try the block read again and then it
> would succeed and the install would continue happily.
>
>
> I then tried an installation from a hard-disk partition but got hit by
> this bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186729
>
>
> So, finally what I did was set up another machine on the network as a
> repository, and did the install via http. That worked.
>
>
> I have now also upgraded two machines from FC4 to FC5. I upgraded via yum,
> and have to say that I am very happy -even surprised- with how well that
> all went. In fact, the second one I upgraded remotely through an ssh
> session.
>
> For that, I found the following very helpful:
>
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> http://www.makuchaku.info/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-fc4-to-fc5-via-yum
>
> Frankly, it is a great advantage to be able to update a remote machine in
> such a way. yum rocks! :)
>
> Carlos M. Gutierrez
> WEPA! Search Puerto Rico!
> http://www.wepa.com/
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Terry Polzin wrote:
> > I have yet to get a NFS install to work, the client times out the server
> > even when they are two feet away and the connection is 100mb the install
> > fails.
> >
> > Options like ide=nodma don't appear to work so the CD-ROM drive times out
> > due to use if DMA, and the install fails.
> >
> > These things worked great in FC2,3,4 why not now?
> >
> > I don't have the luxury of time to sit around and pump 5 CDs into all my
> > machines.
Finally found a solution that worked!
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