Fedora 9 Install CD problem

[pat-russell]

I can't get the install CDs (Fedora 9, i386, 32 bit) to work. I ran the media check. CD 1 checks out fine. CDs 2-6 all get the following error "Unable to read the disk checksum from the primary volume descriptor. This probably means the disk was created without adding the checksum." I tried ignoring the error. The install works fine until I switch to CD 2. Then I get an immediate error. I initially used CDs that I had burned from the ISO images. I checksummed the ISO files after download and all was well. I reburned CD 2 several times. I ran the CD test on two different PCs. I ordered CDs from OSDISK.COM and used them. Same result. The CDs look fine when I look at them with Windows XP (correct directory structure, etc.). This is probably pretty simple but I can't figure out what it is. Anyone know what the problem is? Thanks.

[robatino]

Sounds like this (are you sure disc 6 failed?):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447452

[pat-russell]

Thanks for the reply. The PC I want to install on is positioned so that CD changing is slow. I rechecked disk 6 and it still fails for me. I read the Bugzilla. It points to a kernel problem. Is there any workaround for this or do I just need to wait for Fedora 10? The machine I want to install on does NOT have a DVD drive so that's not an option.

[robatino]

Do you have broadband? If so, you could do a network install. You only have to burn a relatively small image onto a single CD, and the packages are downloaded during the install from a server you specify. (You have to locate a specific server and write down the entire path before beginning the install - if you have broadband, I'll describe exactly how to do this.)

[pat-russell]

I have a 100 MB local LAN and Comcast Broadband for Internet access. Is this a deal where I boot from a 1 CD image then it installs everything by downloading RPMs from the WEB? If so, that should work. BTW, the other PCs on my local LAN are all Windows boxes. But one of them is configured as an FTP server. Is there some easy way to put the right bytes on the local FTP server and install from there?

Bottom line, send me the instructions. Thankis.

[robatino]

First, you need to create a boot CD. Download

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...86-netinst.iso

and burn it to make a bootable CD (the file is only 114M). You can verify the ISO file with the SHA1SUM file in the same directory.

I've never done a network install using a local server, but here's an article from 2004 (see the section "Installing Using a Network").

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...69466&seqNum=2

The file above may also be named "boot.iso" which is the name used in the article. If instead you decide to download packages from a remote server, the path you would use would look like

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...edora/i386/os/

(if possible replace with a nearby server). It should have a subdirectory called "images" which in turn contains stage2.img and boot.iso (which is identical to the ISO file above, just with a different name). You need to write this path down in advance so you can enter it when prompted.

[pat-russell]

I got this process to work. Thanks.