Attempting DVD install :Fedora 10 x86_64 missing rpm?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 05 January 2009 10:58:21 Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> > David Timms wrote:
> >> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> >>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >>>> Ernest L. Williams Jr. writes:
> >>>>> Can't get the DVD iso for FC10  x86_64 to install properly.
> >> >
> >> > "eclipse.-nls-zh-xxxx-.rpm" could not be read, giving me the option to
> >> > eject the disk or reboot"
> >>
> >> c: workaround file read issue by not trying the install eclipse
> >> during the installation (do it after you boot up). You may find there
> >> are further disk reading problems though. This could be because it is
> >> an aging dvd drive, or it might have trouble once it gets hot etc.
> >
> > I have had similar problems before and my fix was to use different
> > brand disk and/or different burner. Prior 10 there was retry option
> > which usually helped in similar situations, but it was helpfully
> > removed sometime after F8.
>
> What brand of disk did you try?  What brand of burner?
> I think that maybe the drivers for my DVD hardware is not working properly.
>
That may be so.  I no longer burn on this laptop, as it is no longer reliable.

> I will ask someone else with x86_64 OS to try my DVD disk tomorrow.
>
> My current course of action is just to use the  "preupgrade" solution.
> So far, the upgrade from FC9 to FC10 is progressing. :)
>
It does sound like a disk problem.  It sometimes helps if you force the 
burning program to use a slow speed.

Anne

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