From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lilly.csoft.net ([205.205.219.5] helo=mail102.csoft.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GffOq-0000lP-00 for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:26:40 -0500 Received: (qmail 6911 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2006 16:26:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Upstairs) (buddy@71.116.26.129) by mail102.csoft.net with SMTP; 2 Nov 2006 16:26:39 -0000 Message-ID: <000501c6fe9b$b6819750$2f01a8c0@myhome.westell.com> From: "Buddy Brannan" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <200610311919220765.0002A917@127.0.0.1> <20061102150151.GD30054@rednote.net> Subject: Re: Cannot install Fedora Core 6 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:26:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:26:40 -0000 I'm actually having a different problem installing FC6. (Yes, I've decided to change from Debian and try out Fedora.) Any help would be much appreciated. I tried installing off CD's, and it goes through all the dependency checks and all that, then it bombs out saying it can't find some package. In this case, it's one of the openoffice packages. This package, I note, is on disc #3 or #4 (pretty sure it's #3), but it never asks for discs after the first. I checked, and df showed no CD mounted, so I changed to a different disc. The installation griped when I pressed "Try again" and asked for Fedora Disc -99 (negative 99?!) This all happens when Fedora's copying the installation image after all the dependency checks. Needsless to say...I now have a shiny Linux system with nothing on it! I had a similar problem when installing over NFS. In this case, I put all the CDROM images in a folder, along with their contents (in directories called Disc1 through Disc5). Ever tried finding an NFS server for Windows? Anyway... I even tried to do a hard disk install, as I had the CD images on a next3 partition on the machine I was installing on, and the boot CD or the rescue CD wouldn't mount my ext3 partition to find the CD images (it wanted a FAT file system...go figure!) So, now I'm downloading the DVD image and will try to install over NFS with it, since my Linux machine doesn't have a DVD-ROM. Meantime, I expect I'll run into this again, so if anyone has any brilliant ideas on what steps I missed or how to work around this, I'd appreciate. Thanks :)