On Sunday, April 30, 2006 11:04 AM GMT,
Parag Kalra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just downloaded Fedora Core 5.
> The entire package has 5 cds + 1 rescue cd
> I placed these 6 cds in D drive of windows through following path.
> D:/parag/os/
> Thus all the 6 cds are present in os directory which is present in
> parag directory which in turn is present in D drive.
> This Drive is fat32 formated
>
> I inserted the first disk and fired #linux askmethod at menu prompt
> Then I choose the installation media hard disk
> Then I searched my partition in which 6 cds were stored. It happened
> to be:
> /dev/hda5/parag/os/
>
> The os directory showed all 6 cds as well.
>
> But when I selected first disk (Disk #1 of #5).
> It exited showing error "Installtion failled"
>
> Where am I going wrong?
> Is it something to do with Resce CD.
>
Did you copy the .discinfo file? I havent tried FC5 yet, but I know on
previous versions if you dont have .discinfo available the installation will
fail.
Also, if installing from hardisk, local http or ftp mirror, you need to
unpack the ISO images.
Regards,
IraqiGeek
www.iraqigeek.com
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