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Re: bad CD... ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Taylor)
Tue Dec 1 22:34:26 1998
From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 15:22:00 PST."
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Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 19:29:16 -0800
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In message <199812012322.PAA17770@jeffnet.org>, jondowd@jeffnet.org writes:
> Date sent: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 17:09:20 -0500
> From: Jonathan Sprague <jsprag@onet.net>
> To: jondowd@jeffnet.org
> Copies to: redhat-list@redhat.com, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Sorry, but the Broker on...
>
> > hhmmmm...... sounds like a bad "new" CD
> Well... It might have gone bad, But I installed with it four times so
> far.
> >
> > jondowd@jeffnet.org wrote:
> >
> > > I wanted to 1st look in the archives for my answer but
> > > http://archive.redhat.com/search.html says...
> > > "Sorry, but the Broker on archive.redhat.com, port 8501 is currently
> > > unavailable. Please try again later."
> > > Twelve hours later, I'll ask you.
> > >
> > > During an install of RedHat 5.1 from a clean, new CD.
> > > After booting with an install floppy.
> > > Editing the partition table with Disk Druid.
> > > Trying the install with formatting and not formatting swap.
> > > Trying the install with formatting and not formatting / .
> > > Selecting packages, saying yes to logfile.
> > > The install halts; error message...
> > > "Fatal Error Opening RPM Database"
> > > "OK" is the only option. Clicking it results in an opportunity to
> > > reboot.
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > Thanks for your help.
You might try formatting swap and /.
Bob
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