Fedora reliability

[Douglas Furlong]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 03:06, Chris Sparks wrote:
> Holden McGroin wrote:
> 
> >> So, what is going on with your computer?
> >> First, have you verified the media? Unexpected behaviors could be
> >> generated by corrupted ISO images.
> >
> >
> > I've actually experienced problems like this before. I downloaded the 
> > ISOs for Severn, MD5 OKed them and they passed the installation's 
> > media check. I still got an error during install. The error occurred 
> > in the same place each time. I tried burning to new meadia, I still 
> > got the error in the same place.
> >
> > Finally, I swapped CD-ROM drives with another computer and the install 
> > went fine. I've since reverted to the old CD-ROM drive and never had a 
> > problem with FC1 installation.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Holden
> >

> Well I am using a DVD-rom drive.....
> Chris

This will make little difference.

Chris's point was that it was down to the drive he is loading the media
from, which could be the same with you.

Can you try using a different drive? Can you try installing from a hard
drive partition, NFS server, FTP server, web server, etc etc etc.

Doug