[plug] FC5 is out

[Chris Griffin]

I guess my troubles must just be that it does not like installing under VMware.
Oh well, back to the old drawing board.

On 3/28/06, Kai Jones <Kaij at kamsc.org.au> wrote:
> I was going to reply to this before but we've been too busy with other
> stuff.
>
> The install's worked fine with an upgrade from FC4 on one server and a
> clean install on another server.
> I haven't had time to do anything much except customise the services I
> want running on it and install LTSP, the slower box I'm going to set-up
> as a proxy and see how it performs with our low level traffic.
>
> If this cyclone behaves itself in the next few days and decides not to
> do an Innisfail I might be out of town installing some satellite VPN
> equipment at some remote sites but I hope to have a look at LTSP on the
> faster server some time next week.
>
> Speaking of the cyclone, I already feel sorry for any town between
> Exmouth and Hedland 'cause sure as egg's they'll be in the firing line,
> again.
>
> Cheers
> Kai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Chris Griffin
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2006 3:29 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] FC5 is out
>
> Has anyone managed to install this yet?
> I ask because I have failed at every turn, I hasten to point out that
> all my attempts so far have been to install it under VMware and all
> have failed.
> All fail at different points and with errors reading different install
> packages. This is with direct CD install, CD images mapped to CD
> drives by VMware, ftp install and hard disk installs using the ISO
> files.
> Other than trying a standalone box (rather than with VMware) I don't
> know what else to try.
> The sha1sum on the files comes up correctly, but I am still
> downloading them direct from their site, last time was from
> Pacificnet.
>
> Any comments/successes/failures?
>
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