Alright, so I've been trying to install Fedora 11 on a brand new VD Caviar Green 500GB drive I got yesterday from Best Buy. I tried to do it from the LiveCD and it kept failing to write to the HD. "Bad media" something. I thought my HD might be eff'd. I was kinda pissed.
So I tried the full DVD install, and it goes normal, media check passed, and it goes about the normal installation until it gets to the actual instal. You know, with the progress bar and all. At which point it says:
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python: rpmte.c:704: prmteColorDS: Assertion 'ix < Count' failed.
install exited abnormally [1/1]
disabling swap... ((etc etc))
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sending kill signals...done
you may safely reboot your system
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I see no errors on TTY2-4. TTY5 says "failed to destroy server context", if that's relavent. I dunno.
So, what, do I have a bad HDD or am I doing something wrong?
tl;dr: Fedora 11 halp!
>>1 here.
When I boot to a live CD, copying the CD to the HDD fails less than halfway through. "This may be due to bad media. Please verify your installation media." I've tried a DVD and 2 different live CDs. I'm pretty sure it's not them.
The last couple of tries, though, it doesn't say anything at all, the installer just freezes or the screen goes black (and says "no signal" before turning off, almost like the card was deactivated or something, but the lights stay on)
I even tried to switch over to TTY2 and typed /usr/bin/liveinst. The graphical installer appeared over a black screen and froze about a third of the way through.
D:
I remember back when I had the Xfce spin of Fedora 11 on this Eee PC. I tried to edit the partitions and customize my install, but when I went through with the installation process, I ended up getting erros. I just rebooted, went with the default options, and just clicked, clicked, clicked, and it went through the install. I think I tried to set ext4 as the default filesystem and it puked with that. I either had a bad burn to the CD, or the installer had a common bug.
I have no clue, but all I can say is go with default options in the install and don't change anything. It worked for me that way. I don't know if this addresses your issue, but, I at least tried. :)