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Problem upgrading to Fedora 11 via DVD
I'm having problems upgrading to Fedora 11 from DVD. The installer dies when it reaches the point where it begins to actually read and install the necessary RPM files. The error message states that the particular RPM file could not be read, and that the file is missing or the media is corrupt.
I am starting from a fully patched install of Fedora 10 (no outstanding updates). The installation is a dual boot, with Windows XP on sda1 and Fedora 10 on sda3. My CD is on sr0, and my DVD drive is on sr1. The machine and all of its hardware are working properly. I had no problems with the last Fedora upgrade from DVD. The machine itself is a 1.5 GHz Athlon on a VIA motherboard with 768 MB of RAM. It's old but it works well enough.
I believe the install software is OK. The image was obtained through a torrent, and the downloaded image checksums OK. I asked the burning software to verify the written data. It reports no problems. I can, from the Fedora 10 system, read any of the RPMs on the DVD. I can install any of them that the installer reported as being unreadable using RPM -Uvh "name of RPM file" at the command prompt. I have also tried re-downloading the torrent and burning a new DVD. That image behaves the same.
Several threads reported a need to link the DVD to /dev/cdrom or use a repo= option. I have tried several of these with no success. For example, I used repo=hd:/dev/sda1:Fedora-11-i386-DVD, with the DVD image directory in the root of my Windows install. I get the very same error as when I install with the DVD in sr1: it cannot read the RPM file, the media is corrupt or the file is missing. It was reading the image on sda1, however, because I don't see the DVD access light come on. Using repo=cdrom:/dev/sr1 or variants leads to anaconda quitting with an error. I have also observed by switching to an alternative console window during install, that anaconda does find the DVD in the second drive. It reports a "drive not ready" error for the CD, and a "disk found" message for the DVD. This is as expected, since the install media is in the DVD drive, and the CD drive is empty.
I know that the -preupgrade option is available, but it is not very desirable for me right now. I did try it once and ran out of disk space, and with the number of ISO's I've downloaded lately I'm reaching a bandwidth cap. I have removed some unused packages, so disk space should not be an issue, but I'd really like to find out what it wrong and make the install work with the DVD.
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