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It fails with beaucoup dependency errors; even after copying all four disks into the dir:
$ ls -l /raid/Fedora/RPMS | wc -l
1626
This is a braindead approach, I'm sure; but I red the RH book on RPMs without finding a sensible filelist. Where are the secret filelists? Or must I untangle the device problem and use anaconda?
Your system BIOS is probably complaining about booting with CD drives at hda and hdb with your hard drives at hdc and hdd. (I suspect you would get better disk performance if you made your HDDs the IDE masters, and kept your CD drives as IDE slaves.)
Try creating a floppy boot installation disk from the floppy images on your install CDs.
Thanks! I fixed the cd locations and got it to burn and boot however, it fails after reading initrd.img. Sometimes it manages to print "Ready" immediately before blinking out and rebooting. I suspect hardware or BIOS again, as this is a new box (built around an ASUS P4P800 SE).
There should be directions about how to do this on the screen that you see when
you boot boot from your install CD. It is probably something like:
1) press tab (or F1)
2) type linux ide=nodma
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