i wrote: >> ok, here i am trying to install FC4. i download the iso's >> from RH, check the SH1SUMs, which all agree, and then go >> on to upgrade. the installation halts at around 40% - >> "file not found: fonts-xorg-base-6.8.2-1; disc may be >> corrupted". well, it checked out ok, but hey, let's try a >> net install from the downloaded iso (iso's saved on >> another machine). damn - same problem. i look in the >> mounted iso and see that the file is indeed missing. i >> copy FC4-i386-disc1 over to a real directory (as opposed >> to a mounted iso), download the missing rpm from RH, >> insert it, and "retry". voila! it proceeds . . . for a >> while. then - "file not found: gimp-print-4.2.7-7". we >> download that from RH and go on. "file not found: >> ImageMagic-6.2.2.-2", and so on . . . bob@rsi.com wrote: >Check the actual media, as described here: > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#boot well, i did that, but, just in case there was something funny with the disk drive, i had switched to the network install, using the mounted iso which had been checked using sh1sum. no CD at all used in the final attempt. Jerry Feldman writes: > It appears you don't have any :-) ?? why do you say this? actually, i smile a lot. though today it is hard to. bob@rsi.com writes: > Perhaps you made two of the same disc? eg: Two of disc-2 > and None of disc-3. > Or perhaps when you copied the RPMS from the ISOs to the > hard drive you missed one of the discs? no disks at all in the final attempt. all four iso's downloaded onto my adjacent machine, though as a matter of fact, the install never got beyond the first disk iso. David Hummel writes: > You'd also be wise to verify the discs you burned. The *.iso checksums > are rather meaningless if there were errors when you burned the discs. > There should be a media verification routine in the installer. Don't > skip this step. didn't. clark_k@pannaway.com (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > Perhaps these are relevant?: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/1403 all disks passed the media test - but in the final attemp i didn't use any disks - just a network install. > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/1407 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/1440 > Quick summary: try burning your ISOs with "cdrecord -dao ... " will try that, but this isn't a CD issue. i.e. it was a network install from a mounted iso. Shark Wang writes: > what's the installation model when you try to install FC4? > or you select the workstation model at beginning, and > then let some components unselected by yourself ? so we > miss the dependency ! yeah, workstation. i unselected a few components (like gnome, games, . . .) but what the hell - what's that got to do with the install's requesting rpm's that are not in the disc1 iso, beyond which i did not get? dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave #2 brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) jdm@moylan.info www.moylan.info