Nigel, If you kept the iso file which you downloaded, you should be able to install by mounting it through NFS or perhaps samba. Mount it as "-t iso9660 -o loop" I think - RTFM. Then copy the resulting filesystem to a NFS drive. Then your installation wouldn't suffer from the media errors that you appear to be having. It saves the 95 cents buying a blank DVD, too.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SLUG] FC8 Installation Problems 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? TIA Nigel. -- Nigel Allen Managing Director Electronic Document Registry Systems Phone: Fax: Mobile: Web: +61 2 9450 2690 +61 2 9450 2691 +61 4 1494 5269 http://www.edrs.com.au EDRS DataSafe^(TM) - Saving over 80% of your postage costs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
