Re: Succesful installation

Well then, its a hardware failure allright, i will now proceed to
cross my fingers and hope the promblem dissapeared magicaly, if it
fails again ill go shopping i guess.

Thanks for your help!

Rafa

On 1/20/06, Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > First of all thanks for the feedback everyone.
> >
> > I guess you are all right to suspect a hardware problem but i am using
> > extensively tested equipment (or at least i been told so). Anyway,
> > yesterday i succeded, the only change i made was choosing the liveCD
> > kernel instead of the gentoo sources, and so far, everything is
> > working, does it makes sense to you?
>
> That would take a little bit of stress off the disks since it doesn't have
> to
> compile a kernel, but I'm still going to blame your hardware. The installer
> doesn't do anything that would make your filesystems suddenly turn
> read-only.
> Also, random failures (not reproducible) are almost always hardware related.
>
> I've done probably 80+ installs with various versions of the installer using
> the
> same LiveCD on a few different boxes, and I have never had the problems you
> are
> describing.
>
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> Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project
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