Re: 7.3 won't install

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 13 May 2002 18:44:54 +0100
Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk> wrote:

> I'm just thinking of Rick's advice on this list a while ago. It would 
> seem to depend upon the software used to burn the CD and perhaps the
> CD writer itself. That is, how much the lead in/out takes up of the 
> available space.

That would make sense. I always burn in linux using gcombust and have
used 2 different Yamaha burners. Guess I've either been lucky or others
have been unlucky.

> Chris
> 
> ABrady wrote:
> 
> >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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