-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 November 2003 12:10, Chris Sparks wrote: > Hello! > > I have tried two different approaches to install Fedora to no avail. > The first I bought CDs from CheapBytes and found that the installation > would halt during installation from the first CD. I then downloaded the > ".iso" images from a website (bonafide mirror) and burned new CDs and > that too halted during isntallation. Is there some inherent problem > with installation or am I not doing something that I need to do? Bad CD burn usually yields errors to do with unable to read things. Dropping dead for a long time may be a sign of your attempting to perform the install on an evil machine. You don't say what happened when it stopped... HDD light on, caps lock light on keyboard still resposive? Flashing keyboard lights? Did you do a media test on the CDs like it offers at the start of the install? Is the HDD known to be good? If its not that, what makes a machine turn to the Dark Side? Hardware probs include bad RAM that barely worked before, Linux may drive the chipset or the RAM timings in a different way than what the PC was running before, leading to flakiness. Evil interrupt conflicts. Strange and mutated chipsets like Via used to put out (eg, KT133 no -A that barely works), or shuddering monstrosities from another dimension that are found on PC Chips motherboards. All of these are intent on causing horror. Or, you went out with billg's sister and now he has put a curse on you. Software-wise, the BIOS can be a great force for evil, since the install inherits whatever the BIOS did to hardware it does not know about. Common causes of trouble are the ACPI settings and tables in the BIOS. Try the install by staring it with typing linux ide=nodma acpi=off at the initial boot screen of Fedora and see if that helps. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/wfj1jKeDCxMJCTIRAukBAJwOAD8zp9Ei60OTL/OpG1YuA9JXcQCfTsId KwCoahr+FoCb1X6/SLEiNtE= =JrWC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
