Installation of FC3

bangkok · 11-21-2004, 09:52 PM

I downloaded FC3-i386-disc1.iso, .. FC3-i386-disc4.iso from mirrors of Redhat Linux. I used md5sum to check the integrity of these files. It is Ok. Then I used Nero v6 to burn to CD with the Wrtite method of Disk-at-once. I used these CDs to install and their tests are passed. However when I continued to install CD1, there were many problems with disk errors. They notified error assertion. Please tell me the solution of the situation.

Thank you.

browns01 · 11-22-2004, 07:50 AM

Lower your burn rate in Nero to 8x and/or use better CDR/DVD media.

I used to get errors on CDR/DVD after burn at a 40x
I lowered my burn rate for data cds to 8x and I only use name brand CDR/DVD media.
No cheap off brand CDR/DVD media.
It is not worth my loss of time and fustration trying to hunt down the problems.

bangkok · 11-23-2004, 03:04 AM

My CD are CD-RW. They are good and the write speed is 8x.
However an error still happened. It was

Bug
Assertion (sectors <=63) at disk_dos.c:490 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

Ignore Cancel

You can give me a solution.

Thank you.

bornhj · 11-23-2004, 03:22 AM

probe_partition_for_geom()

If you ask me, from my very limited knowledge of FC2 this is a problem with the partitioning of your hard disk, not the media.

GAVollink · 02-24-2005, 08:46 PM

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=138419

See "additonal comment 2" - ignore the naysayer at comment 5, who obviously had an actual hardware issue.

synopsis:

Can you try the update image at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/fc3-part-upd.img and see if that helps?

(Instructions for using an update disk are available at
http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/updatedisks.html)

It wasn't that difficult - and I got the install done flawlessly.

MrPeabody · 03-17-2005, 04:07 PM

Ok,
I'm guessing that this would have helped me solve my problem. but the update is saved to a floppy disk and then read at boot time. I don't have a floppy drive on this computer....

Can I copy the file to another mount point? Perhaps a USB device or harddrive?

GAVollink · 05-27-2005, 07:31 PM

See here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...25#post1639025