Stuck on Ruby libs?

[pontiacg5]

I get through all of the setup of the install process, but when I actually get to the install part I get hung up on 'Installing ruby-libs 1.8.6.383-4.fc12.i686'

Fedora found my RAID drive just fine, and I got the repository for Amahi just fine. Everything went so smooth til this point! I am using the Fedora 12 i386 DVD, and I did run the disk check when install first started and no errors were found.

Any help for this one?

[pontiacg5]

Well now I got it to get stuck somewhere else, something about typing. I went through and changed the partition setup and that made it go a little bit further, but not much. Right now I have my partitions set like this

/boot 200Mb
split 300MB
/ the rest of a 500GB hard drive

The installer seems to know that my drive is a RAID drive, it is not using the volume label I gave it when I configured it but it is labeling it as a RAID 1 drive. Is it possible that the RAID driver is causing the install to lock up like it is?

[pontiacg5]

I've completely cleared my RAID array and am just trying to install Fedora and it still freezes at random spots through the install.

Is Amahi this buggy too? If it is based off of this Fedora I would assume so. I thought Linux was supposed to be so much smoother than windows. I've never seen anything like this before in my life, this is ridiculous!

At least I didn't pay anything for it

[moredruid]

what kind of RAID controller do you have?
Most cheap RAID controllers have very flakey support in Linux. The good ones work fine, but you pay for that.

Most onboard RAID controllers are basically a frontend with a driver that offloads the real work to your CPU. Same goes for cheap RAID cards. Expect to pay at least over $100 for a decent (not good, but decent) RAID controller, there's lots of info to be found on Google on support for certain RAID controllers.

I myself prefer Linux RAID over onboard/cheap RAID; the performance is usually miles better. At work we use decent storage array controllers, but those cost around $800 a piece and work without any additional driver / command line voodoo.

[pontiacg5]

Turns out it was not my RAID setup at all, I just couldn't get the Amahi repository files during install which caused the installer to lock up. I have Fedora working like a champ now, but Amahi still does not want to work

My mobo is a supermicro server motherboard, the onboard RAID is supposed to be very good for this mobo. I tried using Fedora's software RAID, but every time I would try to add a new software RAID in the partitions setup screen, I would get a bug notice and the installer would exit.

[moredruid]

hmmm, I've indeed seen some partitioner issues during install with additional RAID controllers (or more exotic partition setups). Anaconda (the RedHat installer) seems to be very sensitive.

Anyway, if you've sorted your install out, you can also add Amahi later:
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Self-install-existing