Hi list,
I'm a Fedora newbie trying to install. I've been using unix / bsd / linux off and on for a few decades, but am just trying Fedora. Downloaded the .iso files, verified md5sum, burned them to CDs, and verified the CDs. When I boot on disc 1, it boots and takes me through a series of questions ending with a choice of where to find the files. I say on the local CD/ROM and it accesses the CD, but then comes back telling me that it is unable to find the Fedora Core CD on any of my drives. I've tried this multiple times and it is always the same.
It appears that there is a switch to different CD accessing code at that point and that it doesn't like my drive even though it was perfectly happy before that point. I suspect it was the BIOS code reading the boot image and then it's failing the first time the booted image tried to access. Does this sound like what's happening?
The computer is an IBM PC300 6344-7EU, 667 MHz P3 with 256 MB DRAM. The CD-ROM is a LITEON LTN485S. I got all the latest drivers, including CD-ROM code from IBM and that didn't help. The CD-ROM works fine on Windows 2k Pro and passes all the IBM diagnostic tests with no problems.
Any ideas? Has anybody seen this before? Looking on archives, I couldn't find any reference to a problem like this.
TIA for any help,
-jack pines
