Newbie Help With Fedora 9 installation

E.H expendablehumanoid at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 16:22:47 UTC 2008


Problem still exists...
This time i even downloaded it onto an NTFS drive and burned it...thats the
3rd DVD.

I have Fedora 7 installed....is that a problem??




On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:45 AM, E. H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Kam Leo,
>
> I have already downloaded the DVD ISO again and verified the file with the
> SHA1 checksum calculator mentioned in the Read ME file.
>
> The CheckSum matches...But had to go leave for work..
>
> once i get back...let me see how the installation goes.
>
> Thanks for the links.
>
> @ Armin,
>
>            Thanks...that is almost the same procedure i followed when i did
> the Fedora 7 installation. I wanted to upgrade it to fedora 9. This is the
> first time i am facing problems with installing fedora.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Armin Moradi <feng.shaun at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:25 PM, E.H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for replying Aldo and Armin.
>>>
>>> Yes i am downloading from a windows system. I was downloading to a
>>> logical drive with a FAT32 file system... I went through the documentation
>>> again.. So i guess that must be the problem.
>>> Apparently downloading to an NTFS filesystem doesn't seem to have that
>>> problem.
>>> Will try that.
>>>
>>>  I just need a back up copy of the entire dvd anyway.
>>>  so i would have to download the file again.
>>> I 've burnt that corrupted file on 2 DVDs already :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help, guys.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Armin Moradi <feng.shaun at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, E.H <expendablehumanoid at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hello,
>>>>> >
>>>>> >           I downloaded a Fedora 9 i386 DVD ISO file using utorrent ,
>>>>> so i
>>>>> > hear downloading through utorrent ensures the integrity of the file.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I burnt the image on a DVD at 4x speed and did the media check.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > All is fine.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > But there is another screen saying test for additional media or
>>>>> something
>>>>> > like that....  which has two options
>>>>> > "TEST" and "CONTINUE"
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Continue gives an error
>>>>> > and clicking on "TEST" gives a message saying checksum not found.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > what is wrong?
>>>>> > The Documentation says the ISO is supposed to work...
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using bittorrent from a Windows PC?
>>>>> There may be issues downloading ISO images larger than 2GB.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try the instructions here and see whether you can install directly from
>>>>> a fedora web site.
>>>>>        http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/fedora-netinstall
>>>>> First download the Rescue CD, which smaller size that a full DVD ISO.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alternatively, download the CD ISO images directly from here:
>>>>>       http://fedora.inode.at/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH, and enjoy using Fedora.
>>>>> ~af
>>>>>
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>>>> Or you can just download the livecd and install from there, it will give
>>>> you essentially the same thing, and you don't have to take your time to
>>>> download a big iso file!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Armin
>>>> feng.shaun at gmail.com
>>>> "Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds" Zarathustra
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>> What I would do for installing Fedora on my computer:
>> I would partition my HD and delete the partition so it leaves a free space
>> (not formatted).
>> The I would get a copy of the livecd and burn it (or put it on a USB disk)
>> and boot from it.
>> In the installation, I would choose guided partitioning.
>>
>> the guided partitioning makes it quite painless :)
>>
>> --
>> Armin
>> feng.shaun at gmail.com
>> "Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds" Zarathustra
>>
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