Fedora 5, and RedHat 4, Update 3

Margaret_Doll Margaret_Doll at brown.edu
Fri Jul 21 15:03:28 UTC 2006


On Thursday, July 20, 2006, at 09:10 PM, John van Zantvoort wrote:

> I've had similar problems, the checksums seemed to fail even when the 
> md5sum
> didn't.
> Beeing neurotic I've extracted all the iso's into one folder then "rpm
> --import"'ed the key on the disk and verfied every package "rpm -K 
> blah.rpm".
> They where all correct so I just exported the files through nfs (http 
> works
> just as wel) and use the isolinux on the first disk to create a disk 
> to boot
> from.
> End result: quick(it's often quicker then cd/dvd installs) working 
> install.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
>
>               John.

I took a chance with the Fedora cds that did not past the installation 
tests.  The
installation went through without a problem.

>
> On 7/20/06, Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I have downloaded years of Fedora and RedHat isos , written them to
>> disc and used them for installlations.
>>
>> I have not been able to write FC 5 disc2 and disc5,  RedHat ES 4,
>> Update disc2 and disc4 successfully.  They all  fail the installation
>> test prior to starting the installation.  I have checked the sha1sums
>> for the  isos that I have.  They are fine.
>> Any suggestions as to why the installation tests are failing.
>>
>>         Installing on Dell Optiplex 620s.  I have successfully done 
>> this
>> before with a previous version of RedHat
>>
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>
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