On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:38 +1000, Simon Slater wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:27 -0500, Michael wrote: > > 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/ > > > Thanks Michael. Downloading the rescue CD iso now. Will let you know > how it goes. I had thought about the rescue CD, but focussed on the > boot.iso for some reason instead, probably the longer download time. > I guess it would be good to register with fedorasolved to support the > community. > > -- > Regards > Simon > Thanks for your help Michael. With the advice from Chris (other part of thread) the install has worked, so I have stopped the download - it was only 20% of the way through. Will start working through the extras on the laptop one-by-one now. -- Regards Simon
