fedora 3

hello,

just wondering if anyone has had the same issues I am having with fedora
core 3. downloaded all ISO's checked the md5sum all were good and matched
exactly. burnt them. installed (well tried to) and get to where it tries
to transfer the install image to disk and then it fails the error is
"error transferring install image. you are probably out of disk space"

ok so i look this up on various web sites and they say try using various
boot commands such "linux allowcddma" and "linux ide=nodma" and many more.
so i try every single one and it still fials. fine perhaps its just
hardware. i try the same thing (with all the different boot options) on two
other PC's one old, one new. same thing happens and it wont install. so I
perform media checks and they all fail. so I download them all again, md5
check them - all good - burn them again - check them again and they still
all fail and they still all fail when performing the install with the same
error above.

this is the last port of call before i move to debian and fuck redhat off
for good (which is a shame becuase their flavour is very very nice - much
like HPUX). anyone had similar experiences?

cheers
moth

Well it wasnt just me going mad. Fedora 3 really is screwed. several
sysadmins i know also have had the same issue, except one who managed to
only get it to install on one machine (and he just managed even that - all
others failed).

i downloaded fedora 4 core beta last night and this installed perfectly.

cheers
moth


"rancid moth" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d47e3o$9uc$(E-Mail Removed)...
> hello,
>
> just wondering if anyone has had the same issues I am having with fedora
> core 3. downloaded all ISO's checked the md5sum all were good and matched
> exactly. burnt them. installed (well tried to) and get to where it tries
> to transfer the install image to disk and then it fails the error is
> "error transferring install image. you are probably out of disk space"
>
> ok so i look this up on various web sites and they say try using various
> boot commands such "linux allowcddma" and "linux ide=nodma" and many more.
> so i try every single one and it still fials. fine perhaps its just
> hardware. i try the same thing (with all the different boot options) on
> two other PC's one old, one new. same thing happens and it wont install.
> so I perform media checks and they all fail. so I download them all
> again, md5 check them - all good - burn them again - check them again and
> they still all fail and they still all fail when performing the install
> with the same error above.
>
> this is the last port of call before i move to debian and fuck redhat off
> for good (which is a shame becuase their flavour is very very nice - much
> like HPUX). anyone had similar experiences?
>
> cheers
> moth
>
>

rancid moth wrote:
> hello,
>
> just wondering if anyone has had the same issues I am having with fedora
> core 3. downloaded all ISO's checked the md5sum all were good and matched
> exactly. burnt them. installed (well tried to) and get to where it tries
> to transfer the install image to disk and then it fails the error is
> "error transferring install image. you are probably out of disk space"
>
> ok so i look this up on various web sites and they say try using various
> boot commands such "linux allowcddma" and "linux ide=nodma" and many more.
> so i try every single one and it still fials. fine perhaps its just
> hardware. i try the same thing (with all the different boot options) on two
> other PC's one old, one new. same thing happens and it wont install. so I
> perform media checks and they all fail. so I download them all again, md5
> check them - all good - burn them again - check them again and they still
> all fail and they still all fail when performing the install with the same
> error above.
>
> this is the last port of call before i move to debian and fuck redhat off
> for good (which is a shame becuase their flavour is very very nice - much
> like HPUX). anyone had similar experiences?
>
> cheers
> moth
>
>

I think the problem is you're getting a false negative, the burned
images are ok it's just the tool that's trying to verify the
images (mediacheck) is incorrectly saying it's bad. What I did was
download the iso files, the md5sums on them checkout vs the
md5 sums on the web site. Then I burned the images to cd and
then mounted each cd image file via a iso loopback device and
did a recursive "diff" command to compare each file in the
burned cd to the same files in the loopback mounted iso file. In each
case I got a ok from the 'diff' check but in one case the mediacheck
said it was bad. So that's evidence to me that the mediacheck
tool is screwy (sometimes).

Mark