unable to install f16 live to machine

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Oct 6 22:42:31 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 15:27 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
> 
> I am running Fedora 16 Live Beta CD and in fallback mode, but cannot install it.  I select Install to CD from System Menu entry and it does nothing in this case.
> 
> I am happy to report that the machine runs from livecd.  No version of Fedora since Fedora 13 has run on this machine for a good while.  I had tried several livecds(Fedora Live) and none ran, they always bombed out with snd_hda errors that I had reported before, but the bugzilla was closed and I could not submit any information to developers on this machine.  
> 
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_3a0479b3-b230-4b68-91aa-d8011e04ea1c
> 
> is the smolt profile from livecd.  I click on install to disk but it is failing.  How much disk space is needed?  I have 12 GB free on a 40 GB hard drive, I believe I should be able to install it there.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Or I can't install it here?

Open a console and run 'liveinst', that's the only way we can actually
tell why it's not running.
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