RC4 Install fails

I downloaded the RC4 diff, applied it to the RC3 iso, tested the MD5sum. 
Burned the CD. Tested the individual file MD5sum. Great..                  
                       
                                              
The CD boots fine, and I was able to make all the normal installation 
selections. However, phase 1 of the install fails quite quickly. LCU.LOG 
has this:


[Mon Dec 31 [Mon Dec 31 16:21:06] DIAGINFO install is starting.            
                                         
[Mon Dec 31 16:21:09] DIAGINFO install was successful.                     
                             
[Mon Dec 31 16:21:09] SEINST install is starting.                          
                             
[Mon Dec 31 16:21:12] Product Returned 0x1604, Unexpected condition.       
                             
[Mon Dec 31 16:21:12] SEINST install failed.                               
                             
 
This is attempting to install to my Thinkpad T40, which has a working 1.2 
install and has successfully installed all the 2.0 betas/RCs.

Any suggestions as to tracking the problem?

paul            

I'd download the full RC4 ISO and burn that. Something about the whole 
diff process strikes me as not being too reliable, though I have no 
personal experience with it.

Can you fully reformat the disc and clear all LVM info and the boot sector 
using DFSEE? Sometimes the install will fail with weird errors if some 
left-over LVM info is present.

Brett Carlock wrote:

> I'd download the full RC4 ISO and burn that. Something about the whole 
> diff process strikes me as not being too reliable, though I have no 
> personal experience with it.

Well, I've used it a few times without problems, though I do tend to test 
both the diff and the final iso more thoroughly than I might if I 
downloaded a full iso.

> Can you fully reformat the disc and clear all LVM info and the boot sector

> using DFSEE? Sometimes the install will fail with weird errors if some 
> left-over LVM info is present.

I seem to have the problem fixed, though I'm not at all sure why. The 
first time I attempted the install, I used a USB hard drive to hold the 
licence key and failed to eject it before the install started. The second 
time, I ejected the external drive before the install began. Seems to have 
fixed the problem, since the install went through without problems after 
that. Strange...

paul.

Yeah, strange is one word for it. I wonder what caused the issue?

In any case, glad you got it to succeed :)

Brett Carlock wrote:
> Yeah, strange is one word for it. I wonder what caused the issue?
> 
> In any case, glad you got it to succeed :)
> 
Same thing happened here.
I had the usb key also and after removing the key....

< testing now>

And it fails again....

Now what did you do to make it work?