FC2 AMD_64 install fails

[P.Agenbag]

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I did some console hopping and didn't see anything starnge at first, but
then, one this one obscure console, I saw it was trying to access the
IDE beyond it's range ( the silly thing, it was FC2 after all who
partitioned the disk for me!!!), so, I started a new install, and this
time did a manual install and made my own structure, /boot = 200MB, swap
= 2GB, / = 80GB and /var = rest. Now it works!!!

Is there a partition size limit?
The only diffs here is that the auto partition made:
/boot=100MB
swap = 2GB
/ = rest ( approx 117GB)


On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 22:07, Avery Earle wrote:
> Do some console hopping to see if there's anything about
> SATA (hde, most likely) and a lost interrupt.  I saw this on a dual opteron,
> MSI (k8t master?), one sata disk. Disk performace approached zero.
> Gave up, tried gentoo 2004.1. This was no better (default) or OK (smp),
> which suggests a workaround might be smp at install time.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:04:38PM +0200, P.Agenbag wrote:
> > Hi List
> > 
> > I seached the list and it seems I am the only person in the whole wide
> > world with an install failure on FC2 for AMD64??? ( or maybe I searched
> > like my but anyway...)
> > 
> > I proceed to do a "everything" install and have FC2 do a auto partition
> > on a 120GB SATA disk. All's well at this point, then it formats
> > partition and copies the install image to disk and then it prepares the
> > rpm transaction and then , woops, does a post install configuration
> > without copying anything and gives me a message like follows:
> > 
> > An unhandled exception has occured .....
> > 
> > Traceback
> > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handleRenderCallback
> > self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
> > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback
> > self.initf.icw.nextClicked()
> > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, in nextClicked
> > self.dispatch.gotoNext()
> > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotoNext
> > self.moveStep()
> > bla bla bla
> > (I have to type this by hand since folks thinks other folks still use
> > floppy drives...)
> > 
> > Anyway, I thought it had something to do with my graphics card, so I
> > tried a text only install, same thing, different errors...
> > 
> > Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
> > 
> > PS all CD media MD5SUMS check out OK
> > 
> > PPS system = AMD 64 3200, 1GB DDR400 RAM, 120GB SATA DISK NVIDIA FX-5700
> > 256MB
> > 
> > PPPS how difficult would it be to have the option to write to CD during
> > install, ie, write a boot CD at least?
> > 
> > PPPPS thanks for the help and hard work on FC!!
> > 	
> > 
> > 
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