Re: Long standing trouble installing x86_64

Let me ask a clarifying question here.. Are you saying you tried to use a
Mandrake/Mandriva install cd set and told it to "Upgrade" a Fedora Core 3
installation?


On Tue, June 14, 2005 22:40, Mark Davis said:
>
> The issue is that the Mandriva (nee Mandrake) installers cannot
> adequately deal with a previous Fedora Core 3 install on the target
> system. URPMI ends up in an infinite loop attempting to resolve
> dependancies. The breakthrough came after i had hand installed urpmi
> and was force feeding packages to the system. I got tired of screwing
> around with the old installed packages and wiped out the rpm database.
> This is when I noticed that urpmi was working through the packages
> much faster.

> The stupid thing is that nobody could tell me this was the problem. We
> all blamed hardware, media, me... anything but the installer.

> I don't know what the right answer is to solve this problem, but I am
> sure glad that I can move forward.
>
> The sad part is that I have wasted 16 solid hours on this with no
> installation support.
>
> Now that I have characterised the problem maybe it can be solved. I'm
> off to bitch at the support team :)
>
> On 6/14/05, Dave Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mark Davis wrote:
>>
>> >I purchased a Pogolinux Altura64 workstation that came with Fedora
>> >Core. Being a longtime Mandrake user I thought that it woujld be
>> >trivial to get this system running with MDK.
>> >
>> >Sadly I have spent about 16 hours working on this system with both
>> >10.1 and 10.2 without getting past the same point.
>> >
>> >The installer program hangs at the point of "Looking for available packages".
>> >
>> >I have tried this with several combinations of the following parameters:
>> >text
>> >alt1
>> >alt0
>> >ide=nodma
>> >noapic
>> >nolapic
>> >noiopic
>> >acpi=off
>> >
>> >I know that it sees and can access both the cdrom and the SATA hard
>> >disk because a secondary boot partition has been formatted. Also I can
>> >boot in rescue mode and mount my old partitions.
>> >
>> >I would be open to doing a raw rpm install if that would work... I'm
>> >sick of Fedora
>> >
>> >~drdreff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> This is likely going to seem like a very dumb question, but is your BIOS
>> running the most latest version?
>>
>>
>