Installation failure - suggestions needed...

[Neil B. Cohen]

I followed Patrick's suggestions last night and was able to get my
system installed too. Thanks Patrick!

nbc


On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:04 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2005 14:35, Patrick wrote:
> >
> > I experienced the same thing. I solved it by going into rescue mode and
> > manually removing the FC4T3 partitions, reboot, go into rescue mode
> > again, make the partitions manually with fdisk and format them, reboot
> > and go into the installer and install FC4.
> >
> > After the installation finished and I rebooted I had a weird LABEL=...
> > entry for the swap partition in my /etc/fstab filled with what someone
> > in #fedora called UTF8 junk. I removed the junk and changed the label
> > to LABEL=SWAP-sda3. Then all was fine. Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrick
> 
> Same here now on a second machine. Tried to install, created new 
> partitions including the swap partition and I got the same error. So I 
> installed a second time and got it again. But then the third time it 
> worked!!! strange. So it's installing now.
> 
> Funny on a third machine when I didn't change partitions the install went 
> fine.
> 
> Also on the first machine when I rebooted after the install I got the same 
> UTF8 junk for the label of the swap partition. I'm going to follow your 
> advice and reboot. hope it works.
> 
> Tony
> -- 
> 
> 
> Tony Molloy.
> 
> Dept. of Comp. Sci.
> University of Limerick
> 
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NAME:   Neil B. Cohen (Cisco Systems Inc.)
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