Kind of a chicken and egg thing. I boot off of the floppy ok, type linux askmethod so I can install from net, and it hangs in same spot, reading the CD.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 6:50 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Trouble installing FC5
Joe Fullenkamp wrote:
I have tried some of the other options, like noprobe, all with the same result. I even tried to verify the media, and it hangs at the same point. I'm not trying to do a dual boot, or anything fancy, I just want to install fedora on this machine. Can anyone help???
There are half-a-dozen ways of installing Fedora, as described eg in http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/.
Personally, I would install from hard disk if I had problems with the CDs (assuming there is enough temporary space - about 3GB - on the hard disk).
In my experience, anaconda has always been quite bad at dealing with different CD readers, and it seems if anything to have got worse with FC-5.