Cannot install Fedora Core 4

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:58 -0600, Russell Golden wrote:
> verifications:
> 1. i have not been able to get the installer to work in the first place. 
> I still have RHL9 on my only hard disk, hda. uses the GRUB boot loader. 
> First CD goes into panic whenever i try to boot off of it to install 
> FC4. (I don't know where you got the idea that i have a SCSI disk...)

I've been chasing another issue with someone else who does have a
two-disk SCSI arrangement.  I must've gotten confused.

Ok. Hmmmm.  Panic right off the bat on install with FC4.  Did you check
the SHA1 checksum of the disks after you burned them?  Just boot in RH9,
put in each CD in turn and run:

	sha1sum -b /dev/cdrom

Here are the checksums you SHOULD get:

2f151a7329846da685c2a72fcb40eba3e8a355a0  FC4-i386-DVD.iso
aa82f4be0be901777537b6ad0906c4f3c2d84bc3  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
e43a0db88bf537f6dab6e49513c6391a4aa9b549  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso
37c0a3dacf0e803e402474ecca6a16bf177490b4  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso
72fd68d72a2c7563b74073c25dccb903a2a34a01  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso
3fb2924c8fb8098dbc8260f69824e9c437d28c68  FC4-i386-disc1.iso
31fdc2d7a1f1709aa02c9ea5854015645bd69504  FC4-i386-disc2.iso
032455cdf457179916be3a739ca16add75b768b7  FC4-i386-disc3.iso
f560f26a32820143e8286afb188f7c36d905a735  FC4-i386-disc4.iso
736e1555e88740d6131c5c84fbe69ed1073ba82d  FC4-i386-rescuecd.iso

> 2. see #1
> 3. see #2
> It's really confusing troubleshooting by email lol.

That it is, my friend, that it is.  :-)

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