All,

I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations. I've a custom built machine that WAS running the following hardware:
ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board
AMD 64 X2 5600+
4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB Seagate
550 watt Antec power supply
Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches

As my Xmas present I upgraded the hardware to:
Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board
AMD Phenom Quad core 9550
8GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
Retained the video card from above
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 - 1TB Seagate
850 watt Antec power supply

I attempted to install, from the same DVD used on the original machine, Fedora 9 x86_64, with 4 failures at just about the same place while installing packages. I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and all went well during the install so attempted to do a upgrade to x86_64 without luck. I did a test using my Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and it installed perfectly. I then attempted to do a upgrade to Fedora 9 without any luck (it appeared to fail at about the same place). I then downloaded and burned another copy of the Fedora 9 x86_64 DVD, checked it and attempted to do another install and one again it failed at about the same place.

What could possibly be happening? I since reinstalled Fedora 8, but that has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to Fedora 10 x86_64? Should I have entered something in the boot parameters concerning the additional memory?

Any help or advice would be great!

Stating the obvious, it appears that you have accidentally upgraded one or more hardware components that F9's Anaconda will not handle well. My general opinion of F10 64-bit has been good, plus I suspect it will tend to handle newer hardware better than earlier releases would since it includes updated drivers and configurations. Although it is difficult to predict how any machine would behave, it makes sense to try an F10 install.

I'm not opposed to trying Fedora 10, however that brings about the question: Why does Fedora 8 x86_64 work if the hardware is too new?

Gene

That is why I mentioned Anaconda in F9. Don't know really, but I skipped F9 because it was problematic for many people--at least for the first few weeks of its release.

Let me add another guess--I believe F8 used a lot of 64-bit wrappers (for lack of a better term) with the 32-bit versions of the various applications and utilities. These may have been more compatible with a variety of hardware than the still unstable 64-bit versions in F9.

Thanks a bunch!

I'm going to do 2 things:
1. I'm going to download a Fedora 9 re-spin of the x86_64.
2. I'll download Fedora 10 x86_64.

I'm going to try the Fedora 9 re-spin first (why? Because of my need for oracle 11g). If that fails, I'll give the Fedora 10 a try.

TIA,
Gene