Upgrading to Fedora core 4

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2005-09-15 14:26, Fritz Whittington whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> On or about 2005-09-15 12:03, Timothy Murphy whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
>
>> On Thu 15 Sep 2005 16:24, oldman wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>>>  I am trying to upgrade to Fedora Core 4 and when it
>>>>> is reading CD Disc # 2, I get this error message
>>>>> saying that it can't find "xorg-x11-6.8.2-31" bcause
>>>>> its missing or the package is corrupt. I downloaded
>>>>> and burnt disc# 2 many times and I still get this
>>>>> error. My pre-upgrade linux box is hosed. I do see
>>>>> this file on the CD thru Windows explorer.
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> I don't know anything about your problem,
>>>> but you could try installing in text mode
>>>> (giving "linux text" as your answer to the prompt at the start).
>>>>     
>>>
>>>   I doubt this will help as Anaconda is still being told you want a
>>> full install (including X).    
>>
>>
>> I don't understand your comment;
>> "linux text" means you _don't_ want to install X.
>>
>> Are you using Fedora?
>>  
>>
> Bzzzzzzt.  Sorry, "linux text" to GRUB means you want to run the 
> install in text mode;  has nothing to do with whether X is going to be 
> installed or not...
>
> If the file is present on the CD directory listing in Windows, can you 
> actually get it (that is, copy the file to some temp spot on your hard 
> drive)?  Just because you see it listed in the directory doesn't mean 
> that the file itself is OK.
> Did your iso download images verify correctly with the MD5 checksum?
>
> Did you do the "media check" at the beginning of installation, and all 
> OK?
>
> If you can answer "YES" to the above 3 questions, then perhaps you 
> need to set the "no DMA" option in the instructions to GRUB at install 
> time.

Sorry, fingers going too fast... where I said GRUB above I meant the 
installer.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
TI Alum - http://www.tialumni.org

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