[NBLUG/talk] Fedora Install help

[Jack Smith]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Walter Coole <wcoole at bcoole.com> wrote:

> I tried again with Fedora 8 with an identical result.
>
> There was apparently some confusion, this is a fresh install, it just
> happens to be on a systems that previously had FC6 installed on it.  The
> selection that is offered on the initial screen is "Update or Install on
> an Existing System", so that's the one I used (I've tried several
> others, but none seem to work any better).
>

I think the same thing happened to me once but I can't remember why, so I'm
going to ask some stupid questions.

What does your install disk look like?  Mine is a DVD with 4630 items,
totaling 3.6 GB and named "Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD".  The filesystem type is
iso9660.

Are you installing from an internal DVD drive?  An external SCSI drive won't
work.

You have Redhat installed now, is the brand of DVD the same?  Sometimes DVD
brands and drives just don't work together.  FYI, I have a Verbatim DVD+R
disk and a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-162L drive.

I wish I could remember exactly what I did wrong but I can't.  I've only
done a scratch install twice in my life and I didn't take notes on how I did
it wrong.  I have some vague feeling that I downloaded the image and then
used K3b to burn the disk and did it wrong but...

-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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