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Date:  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:15:31 -0500
From:  Scott Hayes <shayes (at mark) officetracker.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:09587] Re: Error trying to load BQ
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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I have also seen this with machines with multiple cd-roms insert the cd in 
the other drive and all will be fine.

At 11:34 AM 4/16/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Loel,
>
> > KeyError: 'No such group workstation-common'
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
>That package group indeed doesn't exist on the CD - as it is not needed. Did
>you somehow get shown a package selection menu during the install? If so,
>that's the problem.
>
>You usually only see the boot menu where you can choose "LILO" or "Grub", 
>then
>in the next step you can pick if you want IDE or SATA/SCSI and if you want
>single drive, LVM or RAID install.
>
>Once those choices are made the CD runs through without any further requested
>interaction - until it prompts you to press enter to reboot. Which happens at
>the end of a sucessful install.
>
>If you get any other prompts )like choosing your language, keyboard settings,
>package selection, etc.) then this means that something went wrong on your
>end.
>
>The common pitfalls are usually that either the CD-ROM was not detected
>correctly once Anaconda kicks in. Certain PCs have this kind of issues, like
>the Tyan GS10 or GS12, where you have to pull the USB cable of an USB CD-ROM
>for 4-5 seconds once "/sbin/loader" appears on the screen.
>
>Another pitfall is sometimes that the HDs were not found at the expected
>device locations (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb for SATA or SCSI Raid for example). But
>in that case Anaconda would fail with a different error message.
>
>What kind of CD-ROM were you using? Build in or external? And in both cases:
>How is it connected (USB, SCSI, IDE)? Also, when you boot the CD
>into "rescue" modus, does that load up correctly?
>
>--
>With best regards,
>
>Michael Stauber
>http://www.solarspeed.net