[linux-help] Re: Laptop Install Probs

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 12:36 -0700, Olwe Bottorff wrote:
> I'm not very knowledgable about setting up an ftp
> server on my main box, so I went out to a mirror. So
> after linux askmethod I walk through to the screen
> with the ftp addresses. However, I keep getting the
> error:
> 
> failed to retrieve
> /pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/iso/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> Then
> 
> Unable to retrieve
> ftp://mirror.colorado.edu//pub...
> 
> The double // doesn't seem to be correctable!
> 
> I'm obviously doing something wrong here....
> 
For more detailed information on Fedora 5 you can try the official wiki
at  http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 

or the unofficial but very informative pages at 
 http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html

Those will give you more detailed and tested information than I can
provide, and are a couple of the sources I use.


> --- Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:14 -0700, Olwe Bottorff
> > wrote:
> > > Just got a Thinkpad T20 (came with
> > Win2000sp4...sic)
> > > and tried to install Fed5 from burnt CDs. Midway
> > > through the 1st disk it fails, saying it can't
> > read
> > > the CD. I run the "media test" Fed5 provides--and
> > > disks 1 and 2 come up bad. I'm pretty sure they're
> > not
> > > (used the same on my main box install), so I
> > suspect
> > > the CDROM drive is old/too slow/flaky.
> > > 
> > > So, is there a way to install over the net? Can I
> > > install from my main box (Fed 5), or even over the
> > > Internet? At this point I'll take anybody's Linux
> > > distro.
> > > 
> > yes,   
> > Put the FC5 iso images on an ftp server (at the root
> > of the ftp tree)
> > then boot from the boot disk and use "linux
> > askmethod" to get to the ftp
> > install.
> > 
> > BTW, the media check may fail a perfectly good disk.
> > Something about the
> > # of sectors.  Some have said that burning the image
> > with the pad option
> > eliminated the media check errors.
> > 
> > > LB
> > > 

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