Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core 3 fail on xorg-x11

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 19:56:08 EST


On Friday 28 January 2005 14:23, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > Has anyone seen this? I have googled and only see complaints about
> > upgrades failing because of this package. I ran the cd tests with
> > positive results at the beginning of the install, when I get to that
> > package it fails saying the file is corrupt. I re-downloaded FC3 disk 2
> > and burned it, then replaced the other disk. It still gives the same
> > message. Does anyone know how to get around this?
>
> Interesting... It took me six burns before I got a disk that passed the
> initial media check. The first were done at the default 4X. The failed disk
> 2 and disk 3 were reburned at 2X then finally at 1X before the media check
> passed. I guessed that there was some issues with the package being near
> the end of the list, and being such a large package. Dunno.
>
> BTW, I did have to make a few changes to the /etc/security settings to get
> Nvidia to work properly.

Hmm, I had it burn at full speed resulting in about 40X at the end. No
problems.

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Steve Szmidt

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