[Cialug] Venting

[David Champion]

Mandriva will give you a warning if it can't install a package, but will 
continue on and finish the install / upgrade. Depending on what packages 
they are... you may end up with a system that's not so usable when 
you're done, so it's kind of a blessing / curse situation.

I've seen several systems where you can install with the media just fine 
on one PC, but it has these kinds of errors on another, so trying a 
different CDROM drive might be a good thing to try.

-dc

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).
>>>
>>>--
>>>Tim W.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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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.
>>>>>--
>>>>>Tim W.