1) Downloaded Fedora ISOs

2) Ran md5sum against all 3 iso files and compared with the MD5SUM
file. All OK.

3) Burned all 3 ISO's

4) Booted-up using Fedora CD 1/3

5) Ran media check on all 3 CDs ... all PASSed.

6) Gone past HD partitioning using diskdruid. Selected packages to
installat in Workstation installation.

7) Began install


Then begins the problem ....

From the GUI, it was complaining about setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm,
clicked OK to retry and same complaint.

Ctrl-Alt-F3 ( or F4 ... ) to view the syslog output.
Turns out it was having an ioerror.
Mostly, I see something like ( if I remember correctly ):

hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: ATAPI reset complete

... .and also something like:
xxxx { Seek }


It looks like it was mounting and unmounting the CD, since every time
I click on OK from the GUI, I then switch to the shell in Ctrl-Alt-F1,
and I can see CD being mounted on /mnt/source, and view files mounted on
the CD ... and then the mount point is gone again.


Just to confirm, I booted back to an existing RedHat 7.2 installation
( on the same machine where I was intending to install Fedora ),
mounted the CD, and then tried to query and view the contents of
setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm ... and there was no problem at all!!! (
See below ).


What am I missing ? The strange thing is that Fedora __booted__ from
the CD in graphical mode and confirmed that all 3 medias are OK!!

Do I need to specify some BIOS setting or boot option ?

I just installed RedHat 7.2 from CD on this same machine a week ago to
the same disk ( hdb ) ... just to try out that the new hard disk works
( WDC 80GB with 8MB Cache ). Note that CD is on hdc.

Help!!!!!!


[john@localhost john]$ ls -al
/mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 60 root root 28506 Oct 29 2003
/mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm

[john@localhost john]$ rpm -qilp
/mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm
Name : setup Relocations: (not
relocateable)
Version : 2.5.27 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 1.1 Build Date: Wed 03 Sep
2003 07:09:58 EST
Install date: (not installed) Build Host:
bugs.devel.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM:
setup-2.5.27-1.1.src.rpm
Size : 34969 License: public domain
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary : A set of system configuration and setup files.
Description :
The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and
setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.
/etc/bashrc
/etc/csh.cshrc
/etc/csh.login
/etc/exports
/etc/filesystems
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
/etc/host.conf
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
/etc/inputrc
/etc/motd
/etc/passwd
/etc/printcap
/etc/profile
/etc/profile.d
/etc/protocols
/etc/securetty
/etc/services
/etc/shadow
/etc/shells
/usr/share/doc/setup-2.5.27
/usr/share/doc/setup-2.5.27/uidgid
/var/log/lastlog

[john@localhost john]$ rpm --checksig --nogpg
/mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm

/mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm: md5 OK