Subject: Re: Install fails transferring packages syslog
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Sat Dec 15 2001 - 12:33:05 MST
There was one other thing I did, which was to select the verbose install
option (can't remember what they called it, is it "custom?") versus the
default "we'll take care of it" one.
On Saturday, December 15, 2001, at 01:26 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
> I do want a bunch more stuff, but I have tried the home/office. And I
> even went so far as to try to install the minimum set figuring that I
> could add the X stuff later, but I had not luck with that.
>
> --Adam
>
>
>> I had this problem when I attempted to install.
>> I found that the choice of packages determined if the error showed up.
>> Try installing with simpler packages (home/office if X is required or
>> one of the smaller packages closest to the top of the installer list
>> if console only) and adding other packages manually later.
>> This may be related to some packages being on YDL disks other than the
>> install CD (just a guess).
>> On Friday, December 14, 2001, at 08:48 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>>
>>> I still can't get past "transferring packages" followed by "error
>>> running transaction set" and "please correct this manually"
>>> and I have tried a bunch of different things (text only, and graphic
>>> installer, downloading the image from a different mirror and
>>> reburning it, format then reboot and install, default and custom
>>> install, many packages and disabling a bunch of them, I tried
>>> creating a bootloader partition, just in case the installer tried to
>>> write to that...) .
>
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