F8 install failure at xinit

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I just tried to install F8 on a fresh 400GB sata disk, on an offboard 
> controller.  I configured it so as not to touch the existing drives with FC6 
> installed on them so that I had some continuity and could back up to Fc6 as I 
> am now.
> 
> Everything was marching along at a good rate, with basically an everything 
> install, 1266 packages IIRC.
> 
> At the 805th package it bailed out.  The package was:
> 
> xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-2.fc8.i386.rpm
> 
> It either could not be opened or was missing.  The media did pass checksum, 
> and the network was alive & well, the install getting much of its info from 
> there according to the traffic on my router.
> 
> Next?
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Personally, I'd start over.

you probably could do a reboot with all the same install parameters and
it would probably continue on from where it left off, you could probably
do a linux rescue boot, chroot, manually finish (at least 'yum
groupupdate Base') and run grub-install but I would want a new/clean
install to start with disrepair.

Craig