fc9 install

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 15:20:40 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:29 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/8/10 Fennix <cn.stefan at gmail.com>
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>         
>         
>         I think that Ken Murray has the right idea.  My experience
>         with the installation of F9 is the same.  When I do the media
>         check it reports a good disk and then cannot continue the
>         installation.  Reboot and skip the media check and the
>         installation proceeds normally.  On my system this has always
>         been the case for the numerous F9 install/re-installs that I
>         have needed to do.
>         
> 
> This has been the case ever since RedHat 9 or earlier, I'm surprised
> it's never been fixed, and it seems a little braindead to me.  A media
> check is a *good* thing, right?  So why doesn't it say "yay, your
> media passed, now let's go on with the install!"?
> 
> Is there a reason behind this that I'm not getting?

I haven't seen this happen myself. I would hazard a guess that it
depends on the drive model and driver. Perhaps something isn't being
reset correctly after the test.

poc





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