problem installing Fedora 8
Buz Davis
buzdavis at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 27 22:13:25 UTC 2009
I switched hard disks so that my attempts to install were to a 137 gig
disk that had a small msdos partition and a 30 g linux partition. This
should have allowed plenty of space for an install, but I still got the
[1/1] abnormal termination of Anaconda.
I played around with some of the options and found that if I specified
'noprobe' I would get further into the process. After selecting English
and a US keyboard Anaconda asked where the files to install were.
When I selected 'Local CD/DVD' it informed me that it couldn't find a
driver for it. (This seems odd, as it was RUNNING from the CD at the
time). It offered a list of drivers from which to select but there was
no obvious choice, and every choice that I tried resulted in a dump.
The CD in question is a generic IDE 52x.
I do have an identical CD on another linux box. Is there any utility by
which I can find the driver that device is using ? If so, can I prepare
a floppy with this driver to give to Anaconda ? Should this be in a
standard ext3 filesystem or do I have to do something else to prepare a
driver ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Buz Davis
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