Installation of Fedora 7 no go

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > >    I have been trying to install Fedora 7 on an
> > older
> > > machine AMD-1800XP, 512MB Ram and it has not
> > worked. 
> > > Media check passes and I get a bug message from
> > > anaconda.  The machine worked with FC3 and
> kernel
> > > parameter acpi=ht, because it did not shutdown
> > > properly.  
> > > 
> > > Here I will attach the anaconda message 
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Hi Antonio,
> > 
> > Do you have some information on at which point
> this
> > happened?
> > Otherwise us non-programmer mortals won't be able
> to
> > help.
> > 
> > For example, was it during the partitioning bit of
> > Anaconda?
> > If so, what was your drive layout and what were
> you
> > doing?
> > 
> > P.S. I also had a crash and was able to solve it.
> > Check the thread 
> > "Weird disk problem" (I later added " [solved]".
> > 
> > Guus.
> > -- 
> > A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
> > user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
> > 
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> 
> It has happened after the partitioning scheme.  I
> let
> it do its thing, use free space and then all of a
> sudden, this happened.  
> 
> I later tried again and I got the following:
> 
> Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to
> a
> missing 
> repodata directory.  Please ensure that your install
> tree has been correctly generated   cannot open/read
> repond.xml file for repository: 
> anaconda-base-200705271038.i386 
> 
> I also tried a text-based install and it does not
> want
> to work either.  It bombs out with the same message.
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio 
> 
> 
>        
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Sent to Bugzilla

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242194

If this is a duplicate of another, or others are
having the same troubles, please add your comments.

Regards,

Antonio 


       
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