Hey all,
I've been having a lot of problems installing the betas. Since beta 1, I'd
get past the package selection to the actual installing of packages. It'd
get through maybe 10 - 20 packages before locking up completely. Switching
screens to see whats going on, I find that its trying to fetch an RPM from
the CD when it fails.
At first I figured that it might just be bad media so I tried different
brands of CDRs, same deal. Then, I thought it might be something with the CD
burning program so I tried xroast (I was using xroaster so I tried gcombust).
Same deal. Then I realized they were basically just both front ends using
the same CD burning utility. My working MDK8.1 CDs were burnt using Nero
(under windows) so I tried doing that on the same media as the MDK8.1 CDs.
Same deal.
I then thought it could be something with my CD or DVD drive but the install
fails the same way on both. I have a TDK121032A CDR and generic 10x DVD
drive thats identified as a LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163. A install of MDK8.1
succedes 100% of the time on both.
The weird thing is that on a whim I decided to try installing beta 3 under
VMWare. The install ran like a champ... all the way to completion.
The last thing I can think of might be that it might be a problem with
ReiserFS which is what I'm using for all my partitions. I would try deleting
my / and /usr partitions and reinstalling on ext3 to see if that worked but I
don't have any more time to fiddle with it this weekend.
Has anyone ran across any similar problems? I didn't see any problems
related to this in the bugzilla database and I wanted to try to narrow it
down a little bit before I posted a formal report there. Thanks! -- Dave
