On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't suppose you have another scratch system you could test > installing on? That'd at least show whether the installation > media is > ok. Then if that works ok, you could try swapping parts like > the dvd > drive, etc. > > On Jan 25, 2008 10:12 AM, Nigel Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings > > Trying to upgrade one of our back office servers from FC6 to > FC8. > > > > Downloaded the FC8 DVD iso file. Generated the checksum. > Compared okay. > > Booted the DVD. Ran the "Test Media" option - worked find. > Started the > > install. > > > > After that it gets a little "odd". The first time I got > around 3/5 > > through the update process and then got an "Unable to read > package file" > > message which it just could not get round. > > > > Tried burning other DVD's but got a lot less further - > either fails > > during the boot or I get a load of error messages about : > > Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block nnnnnnn > repeated again and > > again. > > Any ideas? Sick drive maybe?
As Bernie says another ... FC8 does work and install James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
