From: Simon Slater <pyevet@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm helping an older lady from church get set up with a laptop and > software so she can finish a book nearly ready for publication and to > start on her next. After some looking about, we settled on an Acer > Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P drive (the price + cashback > left plenty in her budget for printer etc). I installed FC6 to > experiment with dual booting for the first time. All went well. > > I bought DVD media for Fedora 7 (yes I'm still on dialup) to > take > advantage of the new featuresbut could not install. After 4 days of > reading posts here and on Bugzilla (this drive is one mentioned > there), > I think I now know the problems, but can't find a solution other than > wait for Fedora 8 and hope it is fixed. This site will take care of you. http://fedorasolved.org/