G'day Nigel, I don't suppose you have another scratch system you could test installing on? That'd at least show whether the installation media is ok. Then if that works ok, you could try swapping parts like the dvd drive, etc.
On Jan 25, 2008 10:12 AM, Nigel Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings > Trying to upgrade one of our back office servers from FC6 to FC8. > > Downloaded the FC8 DVD iso file. Generated the checksum. Compared okay. > Booted the DVD. Ran the "Test Media" option - worked find. Started the > install. > > After that it gets a little "odd". The first time I got around 3/5 > through the update process and then got an "Unable to read package file" > message which it just could not get round. > > Tried burning other DVD's but got a lot less further - either fails > during the boot or I get a load of error messages about : > Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block nnnnnnn repeated again and > again. > Any ideas? Sick drive maybe? -- Regards, Bernie. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
