On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 07:55 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > If it's booting from the DVD to begin with, why is it now asking where > the packages are? A sort-of generic installation routine. You can boot from something, and install from another thing. That might be a choice [1], it might be a necessity. 1. e.g. You might boot the disc, as that's a simple way of starting an install, but you might do the installation over a network, as it's a faster method. > I've tried all sorts of kernel parameters (ide=nodma, acpi=off, etc. You'll need to say *precisely* what you've used, or you'll get told to use the same things again. > Must I replace the CD/DVD drive? Don't know. But you haven't said how it's connected. USB/SCSI/IDE? SCSI or IDE ought to be fairly simple, USB might be a problem. The more specific hardware details you provide, the better will be the answers people give you. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
