Update RH 9 -> fedora core 1 failed

[Ben Stringer]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:24, Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to update a redhat 9 server (dell poweredge 1650) to fedora core 
> 1. The update failed with an error like: The installationimage couldn't 
> be transfered. Maybe insufficient free disk space.
> 
> There is planty off space I think...
> 
> [root at klee root]# df -h
> Dateisystem          Größe Benut  Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf
> /dev/sda6             6.1G  698M  5.1G  12% /
> /dev/sda1             266M  8.4M  247M   4% /boot
> none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda5             973M  8.1M  925M   1% /tmp
> /dev/sda2             7.6G  452M  6.8G   7% /var/log
> 
> Any Ideas??
> 

Hi Götz,

Sounds like a known problem - have a look here (if the site is up):

http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#IntelD845

If this is the problem, the work around is to boot the install media
with "linux allowcddma". Worked for me.

Cheers, Ben