Sorry, maybe my email wasn't clear: I had downloaded the ISO on two occasions to my laptop, neither ISO (when burned to DVD) worked correctly. When I downloaded the ISO to a separate computer and burned it from there I had no problems. Basically, I think the problem exists somewhere on my laptop. The documented issues with crashes I'm having (and the crashes continue despite disabling hyperthreading) are after installing from a DVD that passes mediacheck.
-- David J. Nelson, J. M. Percy Research Group, WestCHEM Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, The University of Strathclyde 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland (SC015263) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Renato Callado Borges Sent: 05 August 2009 16:32 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problems installing Scientific Linux 5.3 x86_64 on a Dell Precision T7500 Hello! On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:54:45PM +0100, David Nelson wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for the helpful suggestions. > > - I MD5 checked both copies (!) of the DVD that I downloaded to my laptop and > neither was correct, and both were different. I downloaded it to a separate > (windows XP) computer, burned it from there and tested the media > (successfully). It's now installed and (sort of!) working. (Thanks Renato, > I'm getting back into the Linux way of things - after a year of no Linux I > now have two boxes to play with, one at home one in the office - and I > completely forgot about MD5). I'm sure you'll catch up soon. More interestingly, you claim that a corrupted (MD5 error) 5.3 iso image of DVD 1 passes the "linux testmedia" test. Of course this kind of functionality is provided by a hand check of MD5, but I had _assumed_ that the mediacheck actually calculated the media MD5 and then checked against a file in the DVD. > (Sorry for all the questions, documentation seems thin) > > - Are nVidia drivers supplied or ought I to source them independently? Due to > the network policies I won't have an IP address and hence internet > connectivity on the box for a few days so installing them off the disk would > be ideal. (1280x720 on a 22in 1680x1050 monitor looks like arse) > > - It's crashed on me three times (complete hard lock, unresponsive > numlock/capslock) each time when opening the system monitor, possibly due to > it trying to track 16 CPUs? I've disabled HT for now and the problem seems to > have gone away. > > - We would have bought it with RHEL but (a) it was indeed cheaper with XP64 > AND Vista 64 bit and (b) we want to run XP64 or Vista64 in a VM at some > point. The main application of the box is DFT with Spartan 08 but we'll be > using the odd bit of (decidedly less CPU intensive) Windows-only software > such as Berkeley Madonna. > > - If there is any way I can contribute back to the project please let me > know, I'm not a programmer in any way/size/shape/form but even if I can help > with a little documentation I'd be happy to. If it really happens to exist a mediacheck failure, I'd guess you already helped! > > Kind regards, > > -- > David J. Nelson, J. M. Percy Research Group, WestCHEM > Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, The University of Strathclyde > 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL > > The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland > (SC015263) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Peatfield [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 August 2009 13:45 > To: David Nelson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Problems installing Scientific Linux 5.3 x86_64 on a Dell > Precision T7500 > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, David Nelson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently attempting to install Scientific Linux x86_64 5.3 on a > > Dell Precision T7500 workstation. The disk images (DVD images, 2 of) were > > downloaded to my laptop last night, burned this morning. After running > > 'linux mediacheck' at the boot prompt the install program starts, asks > > where installation is to be from, and I select CDROM. The machine spits out > > the disk and states that it cannot find the install disk. Pressing OK (to > > retry) causes the machine to take the disk back in, spin up, then spit the > > disk out again. > > > > I'm currently downloading the images to another machine (my laptop > > is a good few years old and the DVD-RW is rarely used) in order to try > > burning fresh disks, however the download will take a few hours and I would > > like to check that I am not missing something first! > > > > Machine specifications: > > > > 2x Intel Xeon E5530 CPUs; HT enabled > > 24 GB RAM > > 3 x 1TB SATA Hard Disks > > 1 x SATA DVD-RW Drive > > nVidia Quadro 295 > > > > (The machine came supplied with Windows XP64, I've booted this to check > > that the machine works correctly, so I don't think it's a hardware fault). > > My first guess would be that the installer doesn't have a driver for > whatever sata controller is used. Can you see any interesting messages on > on of the other VCs? Can you try PXE booting it or booting from (say) a > livecd or similar? (I find the ubuntu ones are quite handy for dealing > with some newer hardware esp laptops etc). > > If I look at the Dell 'premier' pages it offers me a T7500 with RHEL 5.3 > preinstalled so it really *should* work with SL53. > > Of course by a quirk of the web site currently it is cheaper to buy the > same spec machine with a Windows licence, Doh! > > -- Jon > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 4306 (20090804) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 4307 (20090805) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com -- Renato 字. 再见! http://sampa.if.usp.br/~rborges http://stoa.usp.br/callado __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4307 (20090805) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4307 (20090805) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
