F8 install failure at xinit

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 15 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
>Craig White wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 06:17 -0500, David Boles wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> If this is an official Fedora 8 DVD an 'everything install' does not
>>> really install everything. Anaconda only 'knows' about what is on the 3+
>>> GB disk. If you just let Anaconda do a standard install when it is
>>> complete and the system is up and running in the 'Add/Remove Software'
>>> menu selection you are shown the same, or a very similar application
>>> selection screen. And that, since you are know able to install from The
>>> Internet, really does offer 'everything'. More than what would fit on
>>> two full DVDs.
>>>
>>> Why do it this way? The 'standard install' works because it was tested.
>>> There could be no way, or enough time, to test every possible package
>>> selection for installation.
>>>
>>> I do my clean installs this way. A basic install and add the missing
>>> packages later. It works every time. Plus you get the added benefit of
>>> not having to install a package and then update. You get the updates, if
>>> any, installed when you make your selections of packages to add.
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>> Fedora 8 (perhaps 7 did too) allows you to add repositories for
>> additional installation right from anaconda. Not that I disagree with
>> you but the option is there for those that want to add more stuff on
>> initial installation.
>
>I was aware of that feature also. I did not mention it because it takes
>a little planning, you have to find and write down the URL path, and not
>just put a check mark in a box. I have done this and it does work. Quite
>well actually. But as I said Craig it takes a little more effort than I
>see many making before they start.  ;-)

Regarding that, no.  I checked the boxes, gave it good network settings all 
pointing at my DD-WRT router, and that all Just Worked(TM).

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