Fatal Error (was: Newbie Needs Help with Kickstart Fedora Installations)

[Kelly Brown]

A suggestion for the download speeds, download bittorrent and use that...

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Philip Rowlands wrote:

> On Fri, 21 May 2004, Gary Ford wrote:
>
> >When the installation fails, anaconda presents a dialog box containing:
> >
> >"There was an error installing at-3.1.18-52. This can indicate media
> >failure, lack of disk space, and/or hardware problems. This is a fatal
> >error and your install will be aborted. Please verify your media and
> >try your install again."
> >
> >The last few lines on the F3 console are:
> >
> >* moving (1) to step installpackages
> >* setting file_context_path to nil
> >* Initial install time estimate = 21.xxxxxxx
> >
> >The F4 console shows a huge number of messages that begin with:
> >
> ><3> audit(...): avc: denied {XXX} ...
>
> SElinux is spoiling your day :(
>
> >However, if I then (as root) try to install the at-3.1.18-52 package, I
> >get well over 1000 lines of messages; here are some examples:
> >
> >/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts:  invalid context
> >system_u:object_r:smbd_var_run_t on line number 1535
>
> I'd not hesitate to recommend FC2 in this case. SElinux is still
> present, but disabled by default (probably due to too many problems such
> as this).
>
> >I hope to solve this problem without getting the new Fedora Core iso
> >images, because I live in an area with only two choices for Internet
> >access: dialup at roughly 9600 baud, or two-way satellite connection
> >with severe limitations on bandwidth once a download exceeds 150 MB.
> >Each iso image requires >40 hours to download.
>
> Hmm; I don't know where you are in the world, but this UK-based company
> sells cheap CD images of popular distros (Fedora Core included, but not
> FC2 final as of right now it appears). Slow downloads aren't something
> this list can help with much, I'm afraid.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
>
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