On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Jack Howarth wrote: > When you boot from the cd, use the "linux ide=nodma" command to > boot the installer. This is discussed in the release notes. I had > the same problem on an x86_64 installation until I used that option > which will allow the media check to successfully complete. The alternative is to append lots of nulls to the image when you burn it onto CD, eg. with cdrecord add the padsize=1m option. Michael Young