Assertion error during install of FC3

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:46:04 +0000, WipeOut
> <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>>I got some strange pop up errors during my install of FC3, something
>>"Assertion" errors while checking the disk..
>>
>>It has two options, ignore or cancel.. If you choose ignore the install
>>terminates.. If you choose cancel the install continues..
>>
>>I needed to cancel a number of these during the install but it didn't
>>seem to affect the install..
>>
>>Hopefully that helps someone..
>>
>>--
> 
> 
> Please file a bug report with your system configuration details. it
> seems that low memory systems have this annoyance with graphical
> installations. it safer to choose to text mode (ncurses) installation
> for systems with 128 mb ram

I used my wife's Win98 machine to mediacheck my 4 CDs.  After they all 
passed, I let the install continue for a short while and saw the same 
assertion errors as above.  My wife's machine is a K6-2/3D 500MHz, with 
32768K PC100 DRAM and a 20GB Maxtor hard drive.  Furthermore, diskdruid 
reported both /dev/hda1 with 19.8GB of disk space *and* 19.8GB of free 
space....   Oops!  Needless to say, I stopped the "installation" at that 
point fearing I might screw up the wife's machine.   B^)

I'll be trying to upgrade my FC2 installation sometime this weekend.  Oh 
boy, I can't wait for these random X11 hangs to cease!

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
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