Re: Installation of Fedora 7 no go

[Antonio Olivares]

----- Original Message ----
From: Kam Leo 
To: For users of Fedora 
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2007 10:35:41 PM
Subject: Re: Installation of Fedora 7 no go

On 6/1/07, Antonio Olivares  wrote:
> --- Antonio Olivares  wrote:
> > --- "A.J. Bonnema"  wrote:
> > > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > > I have been trying to install Fedora 7 on an
> > >
> > > older
> > > > machine AMD-1800XP, 512MB Ram and it has not
> > >
> > > worked.
> > > > Media check passes and I get a bug message from
> > > > anaconda.  The machine worked with FC3 and
> >
> > kernel
> > > > parameter acpi=ht, because it did not shutdown
> > > > properly.
> > > >
> > > > Here I will attach the anaconda message
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Hi Antonio,
> > >
> > > Do you have some information on at which point
> >
> > this
> > > happened?
> > > Otherwise us non-programmer mortals won't be able
> >
> > to
> > > help.
> > >
> > > For example, was it during the partitioning bit of
> > > Anaconda?
> > > If so, what was your drive layout and what were
> >
> > you
> > > doing?
> > >
> > > P.S. I also had a crash and was able to solve it.
> > > Check the thread
> > > "Weird disk problem" (I later added " [solved]".
> > > Guus.
> > >
> > > A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands,
> > > user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
> > >
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> >
> > It has happened after the partitioning scheme.  I
> > let
> > it do its thing, use free space and then all of a
> > sudden, this happened.
> >
> > I later tried again and I got the following:
> >
> > Unable to read package metadata.  This may be due to
> > a
> > missing
> > repodata directory.  Please ensure that your install
> > tree has been correctly generated   cannot open/read
> > repond.xml file for repository:
> > anaconda-base-200705271038.i386
> >
> > I also tried a text-based install and it does not
> > want
> > to work either.  It bombs out with the same message.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
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> Sent to Bugzilla
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242194
>
> If this is a duplicate of another, or others are
> having the same troubles, please add your comments.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio

Have you disabled dma, i.e. "ide=nodma "?