Redhat 9 install, error installing glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Sep 13 16:36:58 UTC 2004


Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:25:03PM -0700, Murle Bubba Meetze wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to install Redhat 9 on the following.
>>
>>AMD K6-2 400Mhz processor
>>512 RAM
>>don't know mother board info right now.
>>
>>I get the following error at the start of the packages
>>install.
>>
>>-------------------
>>Error installing package
>>
>>There was an error installing glibc-common-2.3.2-11.9.
>> The can indicate media failure, lack of disk space,
>>and/or hardware problems.  The is a fatal error and
>>your install will be aborted.  Please verify your
>>media and try your install again.
>>
>>Press the OK button to reboot your system.
>>-------------------
>>
>>I have checked the media.  I have tried various
>>things:
>>
>>1. nodma noapic
>>2. installing to ext2 instead of ext3 partitions.
>>3. ftp/http install
>>
>>One thing I notice, that the install reports the
>>glibc-common rpm package as like 186,000KB but the
>>actual rpm is only like 12MB.
> 
> 
> The true nature of the error will be found in /root/install.log (boot
> into rescue mode* when you reboot), or if you Ctrl-Alt-F1 through -F4
> at the time of the failure, one of those may also have that
> information.
> 
> *Rescue mode: With the install CD in the drive, put "linux rescue" at
> the boot prompt.  Let it mount your (partial) install if it wants to,
> at /mnt/sysimage, then
> 
>   cd /mnt/sysimage/root
>   cat install.log
> 
> Use "exit" to reboot or re-attempt the install.

Are you certain you have enough free space on the hard drive?  The
pre-install check isn't really complete.
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