Re: 7.3 won't install

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 13 May 2002 09:06:52 +0100
Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk> wrote:

> Patrick,
> 
> Just a thought. Are you sure the iso images will go onto 650MB CDs?
> I've no experience of 7.3, but on 7.2 its really too tight to assume
> that it will go only 650MB. Have you checked the checksum?
> 
> HTH
> Chris

I've read this several times now, and I'm puzzled. I just installed 7.3
a few days ago, burned on 650s, no errors at all. I also installed 7.2
from 650s and had no problems. Afterward I started hearing this was a
problem.

Using the -h flag on df showed them to be less than 650 when burned in
both instances. I don't have the ISOs in front of me because I dumped
them after getting a good burn. But I always check sizes before I do a
burn and I know the -h flag of ls -l showed them to be under 650.

These are the sizes of 7.3:

[kcsmart home kcsmart]$ df -h /cdrom1
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cdrom1   iso9660    637M  638M     0 100% /cdrom1
[kcsmart home kcsmart]$ df -h /cdrom1
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cdrom1   iso9660    638M  639M     0 100% /cdrom1
[kcsmart home kcsmart]$ df -h /cdrom1
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cdrom1   iso9660    494M  495M     0 100% /cdrom1

Those are discs 1, 2 and 3 respectively. I recall 7.2 was similar,
though I believe disc 3 was <400M instead.

Checking the MD5SUMS should reveal any other problems. Also the software
used to burn and the platform it's being burned on might be something to
consider. But outside bad downloads (I never check the checksums myself,
I just make coasters when they're wrong, a bad habit I need to break)
I've never had any problems burning the downloaded ISOs.

Have I just been lucky?

> Patrick Lankhorst wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I try to install RH 7.3, it stops with the following error:
> >
> > Error when trying to install package xxx (it does this with
> > different packages)
> > This can indicate a bad installation medium, lack of disk space or 
> > hardware failure.
> > Press OK to reboot.
> >
> > I've tried installing on 3 different PC's, from 3 different brands
> > of CD-R / CD-RW, 5 different CD-ROM's,
> > I've downloaded the ISO's from 3 different mirrors, burned them with
> > 2 different programs.
> > The disk space on all 3 PC's is sufficient, one of them has 200 Gb
> > on the / volume (just for this test).
> >
> > I hope someone can tell me why this is going wrong, and what i can
> > do about it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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