Sorry again,
I'm very new to this mailing list, I thought I replied to the whole list, well my problem is I'm unable to start the fedora installation, I have not yet reached the partition stage...
I have one more question, if a previous version installs properly, then why does a new one have problems? The new version should also have the same hardware compatibility list, infact an updated hcl... am I right?
regards
Oais.
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1. Which previous version? Is it still installed? If not, do you still have the CDs and can you get as far as the media check, using them?
2. Can you read the 1st CD with ANYthing? You should be able to get a directory even in Windows. This is the root level of the 1st CD of FC2 (From an MSDOS window in Win98):
Directory of D:\
DISCIN~6 78 05-13-04 5:27a .discinfo
FEDORA <DIR> 05-13-04 5:27a Fedora
GPL 18,385 05-13-04 5:02a GPL
READM~12 12,667 05-13-04 5:02a README-Accessibility
READM~14 5,299 05-13-04 5:02a README-en
READM~16 HTM 7,465 05-13-04 5:02a README-en.html
RELEA~18 47,589 05-13-04 5:02a RELEASE-NOTES-en
RELEA~20 HTM 67,109 05-13-04 5:02a RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
RPM-G~22 1,910 05-13-04 5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY
RPM-G~24 1,706 05-13-04 5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
RPM-G~26 1,519 05-13-04 5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
RPM-G~28 1,105 05-13-04 5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
RPM-G~30 1,076 05-13-04 5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
RPM-G~32 1,232 05-13-04 5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
TRANS TBL 4,056 05-13-04 5:39a TRANS.TBL
AUTORUN 248 05-13-04 5:02a autorun
EULA TXT 5,611 05-13-04 5:02a eula.txt
IMAGES <DIR> 05-13-04 5:27a images
ISOLINUX <DIR> 05-13-04 5:27a isolinux
16 file(s) 177,055 bytes
3 dir(s) 0 bytes free3. In your original post, you said that you *purchased* FC2. Would it be convenient/possible to have the party who sold it to you prove that the CDs (or DVD) are good? Do you have or can you borrow another CD drive?
4. Have you tried booting with "linux noprobe" (w/o the quotes)? This would get you into the mediacheck routine more quickly. Just being able to determine whether or not the CD and CD drive will work together would be a giant step.
5. We are communicating via a "hijacked" thread hat was started 'way back in March and with a decidedly non-informational subject. If you don't have a breakthrough, why don't you start a new thread with a subject that is likely to interest more people.
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