On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> Martes G Wigglesworth wrote:
>> Greetings all.
>> 
>> I noticed these messages yesterday after returning home from work where my 
>> SL-6_x86-64 install had just failed.
>> 
>> I decided to try repo switches and minimal installs.
>> 
>
> I don't know what you mean by "repo switches"

What repo did you enable?

There have been problems with enabling the "updates" repo.

Please provide more detail about what you did.

Thanks

-Connie Sieh
>
>> Whatever you guys did to this install DVD set, it doesn't even make it past 
>> the first package if the setup requires catapi.
>> 
>
> Considering "catapi" isn't in the release, it's really hard to test that.
>
>> Did you guys test these dvds at all before making them available on the 
>> 21-JAN-2011 date? (where this dvd was downloaded)
>> 
>
> yes
>
>> I haven't seen any update information on this issue so I would like to know 
>> what I should do to further investigate, or when you will make a new set of 
>> x86_64 iso since this absolutely seems like a media issue.
>> 
>
> The iso's work and have been tested quite a bit.
> Perhaps you need to make a new set of DVD's and make sure the sha1sum matches 
> when you download.
> Or, since this is a known issue, don't select all the repos.
>
>> I ended up installing pcbsd-8.2 on this system but I really wanted to use 
>> Scientific Linux 6 since the clusters and everything is run in linux.  I am 
>> about to start doing MPI/GPU research and I would really like to test out 
>> the SL-6 distribution. (Mostly because I would imagine that if it works for 
>> DoE then it probably works for my needs as well.)
>> 
>
> If pcbsd works for you, that is fine.  I am a true believer that a person or 
> group should use what works for them.
>
> Troy
>