On Sat April 1 2006 11:14, Craig White wrote:
I'm not sure that was helpful
Everything below is good advice, but, if it were I, I'd still try
cleaning the cd-rom first. The tip-off in his post was the fact
that he passed the media-test with one disk a first time, and
failed when he checked the same disk the second time. Old
cd-roms are pretty notorious around here, where I have to keep
up with around 100 machines, some of which are very old. Your
suggestions are good, but if he's dealing with a flaky drive,
it's not going to matter.
There is a method to check the sum of the images to make sure
that the images you downloaded are complete - that is called
sha1sum
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Where_can_I_find_sha
1sum_program_for_Windows%3F
If you can verify that the images are complete via the
checksum, you need not waste any more time downloading them.
The next issue is whether the disks were burned properly -
that is why the media check is part of the installer but I can
tell you that burning new cd's on new computers at > 12x can
cause problems with old computers and old cd drives. Suggest
that you burn them at 4x.
Specific help might be found here - the FC 5 installation
guide
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/
for specific help with downloading...though I don't think you
need it.
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/
Craig
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA