[Cialug] Venting

[timwilson011 at mchsi.com]

Yeah, that's probably it, even though the media check gave it a "PASS".  But why
not just skip the package if it isn't essential to the OS?  It is maddening when
you see "8 minutes remaining" after seeing "50 minutes remaining" for 20
minutes, just to see it "fatal error" out.

--
Tim W.


> Maybe it's not reliably reading from your cd drive?
> 
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:58 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> > I'm doing a custom install.  I took out the offending package from the first
> > failed attempt.  But it still failed.  This is try #4 (try #6 if you count the 
> 2
> > times I tried to do an upgrade after the first failure).
> > 
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> > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:58 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> > > i just installed fc4 w/ no problems. i'm not sure if i installed
> > > those packages your talking about..   i did the default server
> > > install and after it was up and running did some custom packages of
> > > my own.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > n.d.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote: 
> > > > I would like to know why FC4 install can't just *skip* the package it 
> *thinks*
> > > > is in error.  I've done a fresh install now 3 times.  Twice, it has failed 
> on
> > > > the third disk (two different packages), even though it checked out fine 
> with
> > > > the media test.  Fine, I'll make another disk 3.  Now it's failing on the
> > > > *first* disk!  Argh!
> > > > 
> > > > 
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