Installation of Fedora 7 no go
David Timms
dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sat Jun 2 03:44:02 UTC 2007
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have been trying to install Fedora 7 on an
>> older
>>> machine AMD-1800XP, 512MB Ram and it has not
>> worked.
>>> Media check passes and I get a bug message from
>>> anaconda. The machine worked with FC3 and kernel
>>> parameter acpi=ht, because it did not shutdown
>>> properly.
>>>
...
> It has happened after the partitioning scheme. I let
> it do its thing, use free space and then all of a
> sudden, this happened.
>
> I later tried again and I got the following:
>
> Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a
> missing
> repodata directory. Please ensure that your install
> tree has been correctly generated cannot open/read
> repond.xml file for repository:
> anaconda-base-200705271038.i386
>
> I also tried a text-based install and it does not want
> to work either. It bombs out with the same message.
If the machine still runs your previous version, can you {just for a
giggle} mount the DVD and copy the complete contents to your hard disk ?
Is this successful ?
It may be your DVD drive is getting 'weak' in old age.
In fact, if you have the space and a partition {that does not need to be
formatted} that can hold the size of the dvd.iso image, perhaps you can
do a "hard disk" method installation ?
DaveT.
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