[Cialug] Venting

[timwilson011 at mchsi.com]

I did finally get it to install, finishing up about 9:30 last night.  Of course,
after copying files over from the old hard drives, that left me no time to
configure FC4 to be operational for me.  So I ended up putting the old hard
drives back in.  At least I have it installed and the files copied over.  I'll
have to copy over any files that change between last night and whenever I can
get back to it, but I'm sure that won't be that bad.  Setting up the firewall,
mail, web, etc. will be a bigger PITA.

I copied the files using a command similar to the following:
tar cf - directory | tar xvf - -C newdirectory

Anyone have a better idea, or is that pretty much the best way to go?

--
Tim W.


> 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.
> 
> 
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