[clug] Abnormal exit from install of Fedora Core

Simon Burton simon at arrowtheory.com
Sun Dec 28 12:48:23 GMT 2003


Yeah, i've had the same results with redhat on old machines. Even in text mode.
Try a minimal install and then once you're up and running rpm from there...

Burning some incense might help too :)

Simon.

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:20:34 +1100
"Phil and Marlene Carter" <mcarter at homemail.com.au> wrote:

> G'day all,
> 
> Happy New Year.
> 
> I have acquired an old 133 MHz Pentium III computer. I thought I'd set this computer on the One True Path, and get up to date at the same time by installing Fedora Core 1. I chose to set this computer up as a Linux-only machine, and I accepted most of the defaults, so there should be no unusual configuration problems. Package installation starts OK, but about 5-10% of the way through the install, it stops. Messages on the screen are not particularly helpful, here is a part of what appears:
> 

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