Cannot install Fedora Core 6

[Janina Sajka]

Buddy and Darragh:

Re the "insert disk 99" error, Bill Acker would like to chat on the
telephone about this. Clearly, this needs to be cleared up. It's been
seen before, but was supposedly resolved.

Personally, I can attest to three installations here but all using the
DVD iso image and a hard drive install. I don't have vfat partitions, by
the way. Mine are all ext3, so I'm beginning to suspect something very
much amiss in the cd images.

Janina

Buddy Brannan writes:
> I'm actually having a different problem installing FC6. (Yes, I've decided 
> to change from Debian and try out Fedora.) Any help would be much 
> appreciated.
> 
> I tried installing off CD's, and it goes through all the dependency checks 
> and all that, then it bombs out saying it can't find some package. In this 
> case, it's one of the openoffice packages. This package, I note, is on disc 
> #3 or #4 (pretty sure it's #3), but it never asks for discs after the first. 
> I checked, and df showed no CD mounted, so I changed to a different disc. 
> The installation griped when I pressed "Try again" and asked for Fedora 
> Disc -99 (negative 99?!)
> 
> This all happens when Fedora's copying the installation image after all the 
> dependency checks. Needsless to say...I now have a shiny Linux system with 
> nothing on it!
> 
> I had a similar problem when installing over NFS. In this case, I put all 
> the CDROM images in a folder, along with their contents (in directories 
> called Disc1 through Disc5). Ever tried finding an NFS server for Windows? 
> Anyway... I even tried to do a hard disk install, as I had the CD images on 
> a next3 partition on the machine I was installing on, and the boot CD or the 
> rescue CD wouldn't mount my ext3 partition to find the CD images (it wanted 
> a FAT file system...go figure!)
> 
> So, now I'm downloading the DVD image and will try to install over NFS with 
> it, since my Linux machine doesn't have a DVD-ROM. Meantime, I expect I'll 
> run into this again, so if anyone has any brilliant ideas on what steps I 
> missed or how to work around this, I'd appreciate.
> 
> Thanks :) 
> 
> 
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