Fedora dual boot installation problems

[Edwin Humphries]

I tried:

1.	Installing off newly burned CDs - same problem
2.	Installing via local FTP from previously downloaded ISOs - same 
problem
3.	Installing via local FTP from rpms extracted from previously 
downloded ISOs - same problem
4.	Installing via local from newly re-downloaded rpms - same problem

I'm fresh out of ideas - does anyone have any suggestions? :-/

On 1 May 2004 at 4:36, Robert C Paulsen Jr wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 02:28, Edwin Humphries wrote:
> > I'm installing fedora on a windows XP computer: it has a 40Gb 
> > partition: 13Gb NTFS windows system partition, 102 boot Linux 
> > partition, 11.9 Gb Linux root partition, 957 Mb Linux swap
> > partition, and 2 Fat32 shared data partitions.
> > 
> > I've been consistently getting 2 errors:
> > 
> > 1.	when partitioning, I get a "boot partition /boot may not meet
> > booting constraints of your system for you architecture".
> 
> Should not be a problem. It means that the partition containing the
> /boot directory is beyond cylinder 1023. In the past this was 
likely
> to prevent the kernel from being reachable by the boot process. 
Should
> be OK nowadays (but I don't know if dual boot with XP makes a
> difference). In any case it will not prevent a successful install.
> 
> > 
> > 2.	when installing packages (at random stages): "There was an 
error
> > installing [package]. 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. Press the OK button to reboot your system." The 
media
> > has checked out fine.
> 
> Sounds like hardware/media problems. Does it always occur with the
> same CD? Try to get a replacement CD.
> 
> --
> Bob


Edwin Humphries,
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