> I have had that behavior with one type of hardware. > Curing the problem > may involve turning off dma. > Here is where my memory is fuzzy. I think the option > when installing > and maybe also with mediacheck is: ide=nodma > > If I have gotten the form of the option wrong > someone will point that > out I am sure. > -- > > hey - thanks for your reply - i'll give that a try on my next attmept. interesting that when i changed my cdrecord speed option from 4 to 2 and reburned (yes a third time) disc 2, the media check gets to 100% then fails. for the moment i'm going to try to install from it as it is and just see where that gets me. if it breaks, i guess i'll be back at it tomorrow. here's my cdrecord command (not that it matters probably): [root@localhost fedora_dl]# cdrecord -v -eject speed=2 dev=0,0,0 FC3-i386-disc2.iso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/