Gateway M500 won't install of FC1 CD

[Matt Wette]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 16:42, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Message: 31
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:47:25 -0500
> From: Jim Cornette <redhat-jc at insight.rr.com>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Gateway M500 won't install off FC1 CD
> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 
> Matt Wette wrote:
> > I am currently running RH9.  I downloaded the Fedora ISOs and
> > burned CDs.  I was able to boot off the FC1 disk 1 CD but the
> > install program froze on the first screen (asking whether to check the
> > CD).  
> > 
> > I ran into this exact problem when installing RH9 from CDs that
> > someone burned for me.  When I went to the store and bought RH9
> > CDs (in the red box) everything worked fine. 
> > 
> > Anyone know what the problem is here?
> 
> If you are talking about the keyboard not working after the media check 
> screen came up. I had a similar problem and disabled USB legacy support 
> in BIOS. I'm not sure if this did any good or not. Using a different 
> machine, I downloaded the first Severn beta, that had acpi enabled in 
> the kernel.  It installed with both factors  completed. (legacy USB 
> support disabled in BIOS and ACPI enabled in the kernel.)
> 
> 
> Just my experience, maybe one or both ideas will get you up and running 
> on the machine.

Jim,

Thanks.  I disabled the Legacy USB in the BIOS and things seem
to be proceeding on.  I will soon be upgrading from RH9 to FC1.

Matt