Re: FC4 install stops further down now

From: Kenneth (jjjkkklll_at_cox.net)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:48:15 -0700

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:35:53 +0000, Tim Oltrogge wrote:

>> the "Transfer install image to hard drive" point. But now, by entering the
>> kernel parameters mem=nopentium ide=nodma text nofb it seems that I can at
>> least *reliably* get the install to always fail at the "Transfer install
>> image to hard drive" location.
>
> OK, this time I entered...
>
> linux text allowcddma ide=nodma mem=nopentium
>
> and made sure I asked for formatting of "/", "/boot", and swap space. It
> actually got all the way thru the "transferring install image to hard
> drive". Takes 3 or 4 minutes but it didn't fail. Now, for the first time I
> see the magnitude of the install: 745 packages taking 2.5GB that will take
> an estimated 59 minutes to do. (RH7.0 was only 850MB and loaded in about 20
> minutes.). Anyway, after running about 10 minutes and finishing about 50
> packages I get a horrible "install exited abnormally" error and everything
> grinds to a halt (after unmounting what seemed like about a dozen
> filesystems under /mnt).
>
> Is my 64MB swap space too small for the install procedure itself to use?
> Do I need to go thru the pain of setting up a custom installation to trim
> the packages down to 1GB or so? Is this possible?
>
> Tim O

You'll have to do some serious trimming to get it below 1GB, but it should
be possible. I can't help with the other issues, I had spurious problems
with FC4 install, but the third try it finished and all was ok after that.

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