[Cialug] Venting

[Chris Hilton]

Because if Jackie the know-little has it skip something during install
this will be the best way to force her to ask a question about why it
failed?
It probably passes the media check because it's a straight-through  read
of the cd, none of this seeking back and forth; and it only takes a
couple minutes to read the disc.
But I think there are other things that can cause this problem.

Oh the other reason:  It doesn't know it's not an essential package.  I
don't think it's that smart at all, I think it just follows a package
list.
I had fedora 3 for alpha fail at 50% on the final part where it's
installing grub...  Since I'd had a very well functioning fbsd system
before (wasn't my idea to erase that) I was quite annoyed to see fedora
fail there...


On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 01:23 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
> 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!
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > We now return to regularly scheduled e-mail.
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