On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Edwin Humphries wrote: > >After a cumulative 15 man-hours wasted time, we've finally found out there are > >known > >problems with installation on systems with useful amounts of RAM. We had a > >successful install on a 64Mb router/firewall, but when we try to install on a 512Mb > >system, the install kept coming up with CD read errors - on three separate sets of > >CDs and three separate systems. I understand that anaconda has memory management > >issues. > > Uh? > > Well, the errors must disappear when you hit 256MB and up, because I > installed RH 9 onto some workstations on Friday night without problems.
It doesen't make sense. What I have found however is that the "error reading CD" is often a smoke screen for "I got an error when I ran rpm". I found this when doing a upgrade one day on a system that as it turned out had been hacked and had several files made immutable. I tried installing the package manually from the command line whilst booted up in install mode after a supposed CD error and rpm complained it didn't have permission to change some files (kinda odd for ROOT!). To spite my insistance it really was a good idea to do a fresh install I was ordered to just 'fix it'. Yeah... sorry for the tangent there... the moral is just do some more poking around to find the real problem. You might try passing mem=128m or something to the kernel... better yet, try memtest86 if you think it's a memory issue. On the other hand, I've no idea what you tried in your 15 hour stint but after that long I'd be pretty pissed whatever I found. ---<GRiP>--- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
