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 >