[GRLUG] continuing fedora installation trials and tribulations

[Christopher House]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM, <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

> After giving up on FedUp, I downloaded the DVD for Fedora 19 and three
> times
> tried to install it. The first two times at about 60% of files copied it
> croaked and left me at the Live User Screen. The third time (I went
> directly to
> 'install' rather than selecting it from Live User) it finished installing
> etc
> but then croaked trying to install the boot loader.
>
> At this point I went home and tried to install my old Fedora 17. It went
> much
> more quickly but has also failed at the point of trying to install the boot
> loader.
>
> In between I had tried to do a disk-install of Knoppix, but even when I
> formatted the disk to have the partitions that Knoppix wanted it kept
> telling
> me that it couldn't find the appropriate partitions to install.
>
> So now my nice computer, that at least was working this morning, even
> though
> Evo
> was giving me grief, now has apparently been bricked.
>
>
Are you sure there's no hardware issue? Bad memory, etc.
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