[Squashman]

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Cant seem to upgrade to Red Hat 9. Every time it tries to start the X-server for the graphical install it crashes. It detects the video card and the mouse and then it says it is starting the X server and then it crashes and tells me it cant boot.

I currently have 7.2 on my machine. Abit KT7A, 1.4 Athlon, 512mb ram, ATI mach 64 Video Card.

I am not really sure what the prolbem is. It is just giving some type of I/O error with a bunch of numbers and letters

[lynch]

Are you doing an upgrade from RH 7.2 to RH 9 or doing a fresh install of RH 9?
Could it be the CDs?If 7.2 runs okay then 9 should work.
lynch

[Squashman]

Originally posted by lynch:
Are you doing an upgrade from RH 7.2 to RH 9 or doing a fresh install of RH 9?
Could it be the CDs?If 7.2 runs okay then 9 should work.
lynch

At this point it doesn't matter if I am doing an upgrade or fresh install. It never gets to that point of the install. It crashes when it tries to launch the graphical part of the install.

I ran the CD test on all three of the cd's. They all came out okay.

[Squashman]

Seems to have been something with the cd-rom. I noticed it was taking a long time to boot up so I switched cd-roms. Everything booted much quicker with this cd-rom drive. But now I ran into another problem.

It finally booted into the graphical install. I went thru and did the usual stuff, keyboard, mouse and told it that this would be an upgrade and to update the bootloader.

It searched for all the packages, I chose not to customize any and told it to start installing. It started to install and then immediately gave me an error.

Error Installing Package
There was an error installing setup 2.5.25-1. This can indicate a media failure, lack of disk space, and or hardware problems. This is a fatal error and your install will be aborted. Please verify your media and try your install again.

I did the disk check before I installed, so I assume the media is good. Not sure what hardware problems there could be. Everything on my system seems to be working fine and I used all the existing hardware to install 7.2. I did not get any errors when I burned the ISO file either.

I guess I will have to try the text based install. I have not done that since RH 5.2.

[mixx941]

I would say that your ISOs are probably corrupt.

This happened to me all throughout my Redhat 8 installation. I tried many CDs and many burns and they all failed.


-Mark

[Squashman]

Originally posted by compsupport:
I would say that your ISOs are probably corrupt.

This happened to me all throughout my Redhat 8 installation. I tried many CDs and many burns and they all failed.


-Mark

What is the purpose of the disk check then? I would assume that they created the disk check feature to make sure that the ISO files you are burning to cd are okay.

[lynch]

You still may want to go back to where you downloaded the CDs and get the md5sums just to doublecheck.Then just run the command:
md5sum path/to/iso
That of course assumes you still have the .iso files still on your computer.
lynch

[hackedsmurf]

redhat 9 aint stable i would stick with your version that u got and just upgrade the packages...