test Digest, Vol 96, Issue 80

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Wed Feb 22 20:12:50 UTC 2012


Too many different Linux systems on my office machine to add some random
file to each of them.  I'll wait until Anaconda gets over its temper 
tantrum.

I was able to install the 64 bit live Xfce to sda11 and grub2.
No problems seen with grub2.  yum update fails with a flurry
of 404 errors.

On 02/22/2012 11:52 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 06:55 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote:
>>                  Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R<caf at omen.com>  wrote:
>>                  >  RC4 installed unhandled exception on simple storage
>>                  devices check.
>>                  >  Unfortunately, upload of traceback failed also.
>>                  >
>>                  >  RC3 did install on a different computer with just
>>                  one hard disk.
>>                  Sounds kind of like
>>                  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791317
>>                  The bug is in POST, so I don't think that the fix has
>>                  made it into
>>                  anaconda yet but hopefully, it will be included soon.
>>                  Tim
>>          Same here, can't get past "examining storage" on RC4, had to
>>          "fanagle" the LiveCD to get past it but was able to finally.
>
> The workaround for this bug is to create a /etc/redhat-release file, of
> the approximate format "Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)", for any OS
> installed on the system which has a /etc/fstab file but
> no /etc/redhat-release file. Sounds dumb, but it works. bcl says he'll
> try and remember to stick an updates.img in the bug soon for people to
> use instead.

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Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R     caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
   Omen Technology Inc      "The High Reliability Software"
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