can't install fedora 4 from a FTP server

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:15 -0500, Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy wrote:
> I'm trying  to install Fedora 4 from a FTP Server which is on my
> internal network. 
> I've downloaded the FC4 DVD ISO and burned into a disk. And it's fine
> because I was able to use it to install on another computer without
> problems (the check test at the beginning says the disc is ok).
> 
> I shared the DVD disk via an FTP Server (IIS on Win2003) with
> anonymous access. I was able to install on computer A (a virtual
> machine on VMWare ESX) booting from the "boot.iso" disk
> (/images/boot.iso on the DVD) and accesing de DVD disk via FTP.
> 
> Then, in computer B (a real machine) I've tried to do the same thing.
> The computer B get an IP address from the DHCP, connects to the FTP
> server, get the netstg2.img image, ask me all the stuff (partioning,
> root password, grub, RPMs to install, etc.) until it begins to
> download the RPMs and installs it. But, after some minutes, and after
> several RPMs installed, it just hangs up. It doesn't say nothing but
> freezes. I've tried several times and always the same thing.
> 
> Two times it stopped at kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.i686.rpm. 
> One time it stopped at gnome-python2-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm.
> 
> On other computer, just to see if the disk was corrupted or the FTP
> server was broken, I was able to connect to the FTP server and
> download the two files.

Last time I saw symptoms like that, it was due to dodgy memory on the
machine being installed. Try running memtest on it.

Paul.