install stuck (Re: Fedora 8-based distro for Alpha CD Announcement)

[Jay Estabrook]

The problem associated with the hang at "transferring image..."
was noted in my announcement. The solution: use the older ISO
image dated 20080311 (via the iso/obsolete/ directory).

I don't understand why this is a problem on some machines/configurations
and not others; I tried every which way on my ES40 yesterday and had no
luck. Finally gave up and installed from the 20080311 ISO perfectly.

Most things are the same between the ISOs, so it's just a matter of
doing an update once you get installed from the buildsys.zero42.at
repository, which should already be set up during the install.

I'll try to look at the anaconda dumps if I get the chance, but I'm
not really a python hacker (yet)... ;-}

Good luck.

--Jay++

Kazuyoshi Furutaka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to convert one of my 164LX machines back from
> FreeBSD-6.3R (without X!) to the F8-based linux distro, but
> it's stuck!
> # Many years ago it was running with Stataboware and then
> # Kondara MNU/Linux.
> 
> With a CD-R on which Fedora-20080404-alpha-CD.iso is burned,
> the installer starts flawlessly both in GUI (0) and text (2)
> modes.  But after displaying the "transferring image to hard
> drive" it did nothing: in GUI mode, a mouse pointer can be
> moved.
> Booting in rescue (3) mode and looked into the filesystems
> just created (by deleting old data), both "install.log" and
> "install.log.syslog" contain nothing.
> 
> By trying to boot the system in rescue mode with a NIC, it
> hung.
> # By the way, the NIC are recognized by FreeBSD-6.3R as
> # "xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL>" and was working
> # w/o problems.  It also functioned well on Stataboware
> # as well as Kondara.
> 
> Then I've tried to start the installer without using the NIC:
> It went beyond the "transferring image to hard drive" in GUI
> (0) as well as text (2) mode, but the installation process
> stopped with exceptions, in GUI mode after installing several
> packages, in text mode after about 300 packages.
> To me the two exceptions seem to be caused by the same problem...
> (Two anacdump.txt files were gziped and attached to this mail)
> 
> Could someone help me?
> 
> Yours,
> Kazuyoshi
> --
> Kazuyoshi Furutaka
> furutaka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp