[GRLUG] Choice of MB - Trouble Installing

[rh90p at comcast.net]

No, it just says that the package(s) are damaged and aborts.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net>
> rh90p at comcast.net wrote:
> > I only have one DVD burner on the A8V but the media verification
> > checks OK when I boot the CD.  The DVD reader on the CUX4X-DLS 
> > also passes the media verification.  I think I also tried CD's on
> > Fedora 8 burned on the CUX4V-DLS.
> > 
> > Here's the whole scoop which I reran last night to be sure:  
> >   1) Knoppix 5.2 boots and runs on both machines (caveat) but the
>        partitioning seems odd on the A8V (Deluxe)
> >   2) Fedora 9 Live burned on CD burner on the CUV4X-DLS starts 
>        booting and goes a while in graphics mode but then goes black
>        screen a little before the bot completes.
> >   3) Fedora 9 install from DVD hangs someplace past choosing the
>        keyboard type in graphics mode.  In text mode I get a kernel
>        panic a little ways in.
> >   4) openSuSE 10.3 DVD install gets past all the setup and package
>        selection using the default package selection but then a package
>        fails to install and it quits.
> 
> Does this failure give a CRC error on the RPM package? The last time I
> ran into a SuSE install that bombed in this manner it was on an old
> motherboard with capacitors on the verge of failing. That is the kind of
> thing that could cause different, strange errors in different situations.
> 
>        If I deselect that then another
>        package fails to install, and so forth until I've deselected 20-30
>        packages.  It then completes an install but is somewhat unstable.
>        Then when I try and add some of the packages that I want it goes
>        tits up.
> >   5) SuSE 9.3 installs and runs on both (caveat) and I am still using it
>        on the CUV4X-DLS
> >   6) Windows XP64 runs on the A8V, Windows 2K runs on the CUV4X-DLS.  
>        Monitor, Graphics Cards,  disks, CD's/DVDs etc all seem fine. If it
>        matters the video on the A8V is an ATI Radeon 7200, the CUV4X-DLS has
>        an older ATI which I think is a Rage 128.
> > 
> > (caveat) There seems to be an issue with the RAID capable Promise and VIA 
>   SATA controllers.  If I plug in more than one SATA HD the SuSE 9.3 install
>   says that its part of a RAID and not supported. The original Linux on the
>   machine was installed and running on RAID 0 but later kernels dropped
> support
>   for RAID and I've been trying to tell the board NOT to enable RAID.
> There are
>   supposed to be RAID menus triggered by special keys at POST but I cant
> get in
>   to either menu.  Currently, the Promise with a matched set of small
> but very
>   fast drives is disabled in the BIOS and there is a single 250G on the
> VIA.
> 
> > 
> >
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