FC1 upgrade on Thinkpad R30 fails

[Tom Wood]

I checked the media previously, both at burn time and at install with
the R30 itself, and it PASSes.

Further suggestions?



>Message: 14
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:17:13 -0600
>From: "Lewt @ Linux Warcry" <lewt at warcry.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: FC1 upgrade on Thinkpad R30 fails
>Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com

>Suggestion: Check your media when the installer asks.. if it comes out 
>fine then let us know..


>Tom Wood wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> Tried today to upgrade a Thinkpad R30 to FC1. This machine has to date
> upgraded without a hitch from Valhalla through Shrike.  Now, when the
> package install starts, the "setup-2.5.something" RPM, which is the
> first one it attempts to load, fails, stating that either the media is
> bad, the destination disk is out of space, or there's a hardware
fault. 
> I believe none of the above is the cause.  I've upgraded the BIOS to
the
> latest and greatest (about 10 months old now), but still have no luck.
> I've tried turning on CD DMA (forgot the boot command line switch for
> this) and ide=nodma, and both give the same results?  The
> <crtl><alt><F3> virtual console gives no indication of the failure's
> cause.
> 
> Suggestions?