fc9 install

[Paul Newell]

Fennix wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan 
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com <mailto:pocallaghan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > 2008/8/10 Fennix <cn.stefan at gmail.com <mailto:cn.stefan at gmail.com>>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >         I think that Ken Murray has the right idea.  My experience
>     >         with the installation of F9 is the same.  When I do the
>     media
>     >         check it reports a good disk and then cannot continue the
>     >         installation.  Reboot and skip the media check and the
>     >         installation proceeds normally.  On my system this has
>     always
>     >         been the case for the numerous F9 install/re-installs that I
>     >         have needed to do.
>     >
>     >
>     > This has been the case ever since RedHat 9 or earlier, I'm surprised
>     > it's never been fixed, and it seems a little braindead to me.  A
>     media
>     > check is a *good* thing, right?  So why doesn't it say "yay, your
>     > media passed, now let's go on with the install!"?
>     >
>     > Is there a reason behind this that I'm not getting?
>
>     I haven't seen this happen myself. I would hazard a guess that it
>     depends on the drive model and driver. Perhaps something isn't being
>     reset correctly after the test.
>
>     poc
>
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> That would also be my guess as well.  I cannot remember now whether 
> this happened in prior version installs now.  This time I was affected 
> recently with grub errors after an update and was no longer able to 
> boot F9.  F8 still worked if grub loaded and did not report a stage 2 
> error.  Tried re-installing F9 and it always seemed to stall towards 
> then end (file #835 of ~936) for a generic install (take the defaults 
> for choices and modify once a base system was installed) so I tried 
> numerous times and encountered the post media check hang.  I could 
> only successfully install this time from the latest Fedora Unity 
> release.  Not sure if I tried the media check then as that was ~ my 
> 8th attempt to reinstall....
>
> I am not sure how to get any log errors when an install is 
> unsuccessful to find out more for a bugzilla report.  Today I did see 
> some messages regarding other consoles for error messages and will 
> keep this in mind if I do encounter such a problem again.
>
> Fennix

Reply to both Poc and Fennix:

I'm going to try Ken's suggestion and, if it doesn't work, will try the 
6 CD process. I said I would get back today with the results, but I am 
in "SIGGRAPH hell week" and don't think I can face anything else until 
the weekend after it ends.

Thanks for the replies,
Paul