F8 install failure at xinit

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2007, Craig White wrote:
> >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?
> >
> >----
> >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
> 
> I just found a newer bios for my now elderly Biostar M7NCD Pro mobo, and will 
> put that in first & then try it tomorrow when the old fart is a little 
> fresher.  Hopefully that will make an offboard /boot partition possible.
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where the /boot partition is located should be of little consequence
because the bootloader code needs to be on the first drive's mbr and
grub can locate a /boot partition in any drive at that point.

Craig