On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 15:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> loader on the system's harddrive. It appears your machine has lost its
> ability to boot from the CD drive, which paired with your install dying at
> 70% would indicate perhaps your CD drive has gone kaput.
Some boxes will do stupid things with CD boot. One way to be sure of what
is happening is to go into the BIOS and set it to boot from CD-ROM,
and nothing else.
At least one box I have here requires that some days
The CDROM drive on the laptop is indeed a bit flaky these days.
I re-seated the drive several times.
Finally, I was able to use the "FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso"
As suggested by John Reiser, I will try an install directly from
RawHide.
Next, I am attempting an FTP install from:
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/development/i386/os
I hope this will go okay. At this point at least Anaconda is running.
I am crossing-my-fingers. :)
Thanks,
Ernest