Installing FC 3

[Lodolce at colorado.edu]

Thanks for your help, and sorry to bother everyone with this. I ended up
downloading the DVD iso and burning it with growisofs in Redhat. I read
somewhere that nero has some capatibility issues with windows XP, so that was
probably the problem.

Gabe

Quoting bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net>:

> Lodolce,
>
> are you currently able to run linux on the existing server that you want to
> install the new OS on. in other words, are you doing a new OS install where
> you want to have Windows/Linux running on the same box, and you only have
> Windows right now?
>
> or, are you currently running linux/windows on the box, and you esentially
> want to upgrade the linux portion?
>
> assuming it's the 2nd, get into linux, and do a 'df -haT' and let's see what
> the partitions/disk structure look like...
>
> in order to do an OS install, you can do a HD, NFS, HTTP, or FTP install.
>
> i'll assume that if you have a windows network, then you're also able to
> setup a http/ftp server relatively quickly on one of the windows boxes. i'll
> also assume that the current machine is able to talk to the other
> machines...
>
> let me know if i understand your situation so far...
>
> if i do, then we can get you up/running without too much effort.. but it
> will take time..
>
> -bruce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Kam Leo
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:49 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Installing FC 3
>
>
> On 5/2/05, Lodolce at colorado.edu <Lodolce at colorado.edu> wrote:
> > Thanks for your suggestions.
> >
> > I tried burning the images at a low speed, no luck. With the most recent
> CD's it
> > won't even load the installer, rather after it states "Decompressing
> Linux..." I
> > get "crc error -- system halted". With another set of CDs once the
> installer
> > loads and I go to start the install and I immediately get "error reading
> > header...cpio:read failed" then it exits the installer.
> >
> > I have yet to try a network install. I only have a windows network around,
> can I
> > do this through windows? Actually, I do have a machine running Redhat 9.0
> though
> > I do not profess to be fluent with linux. Any suggestions on where I might
> find
> > a tutorial for a linux network install?
> >
> > I have Windows XP currently on one partition, and another data partition
> > formated as NTFS. I am trying to setup a dual boot with FC 3 on the
> remainder
> > of the HD (since good old microsoft isn't set up yet for 64bit
> processors).
> > I've tried burning the install disks using various machines with the same
> > result.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gabe
> >
> > Quoting bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net>:
> >
> > > gabe.
> > >
> > > is your system separated, or part of a network. a couple of suggestions.
> > >
> > > 1) burn the iso images at the slowest possible speed...
> > > 2) do a network installation, where you copy the isos to a location on
> the
> > >    HD, or on another server within your network...
> > >
> > > give me more information about your setup, and there might be other
> possible
> > > solutions
> > >
> > > -bruce
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Lodolce at colorado.edu
> > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:42 PM
> > > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > > Subject: Installing FC 3
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been trying to install FC 3 (64 bit) and I keep having problems
> with
> > > the
> > > install disks. I verified the checksums once I downloaded the iso
> images,
> > > and
> > > burned the iso images using nero. I can get the installer to boot fine,
> but
> > > when I test the disks with the installer they always fail. If I try to
> > > continue
> > > with the installation it imediately crashes. I have done this
> successfully
> > > before to install Redhat 9.0, I think in the same way. Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Gabe
> > >
>
> 1. This subject has been covered many times. Search the list archives.
>
> 2. Go to FedoraNews.org and read "Howto install Fedora Core over NFS",
> http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall/
>
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