Installation problems on centrino laptop

[Cody Y]

Some more information;
I just tried again, with acpi=off, and it's hanging on 
"gnome-panel-2.8.1-3.i386".
I'm installing off of a burned dvd that I downloaded the iso. The 
installation media recieved a pass in the test phase.

-Cody
Cody Y wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on my laptop. It's a 1.6ghz 
> centrino. I'm having 2 problems. Firstly, if I leave acpi on, then I 
> get a little ways into the installation, and get the error message, 
> "Critical temperature reached." Normally I would be concerned about 
> this, but the temperature that it lists is wildly fluctuating. I've 
> had 38 degrees celcius to 3184 degrees celcius.
>
> Okay, so fine, I just try it with "linux acpi=off" and I stop getting 
> the error messages. But then, another problem! I partition my disks (I 
> love the graphical installer, I used to use slackware.) choose my 
> packages, and it locks up half way through install. On, "Gnome desktop 
> manager" if I recall correctly.
>
> Okay, I won't use Gnome, I'll use KDE (Or install gnome after). I 
> uncheck gnome, and it crashes at the same point trying to install the 
> gnome package... Am I missing something?
>
> Some information: I have a 'no name' brand laptop. It's a cicero, 
> which is Future Shop's in house brand. After a little bit of research, 
> I've found out that it's either a rebranded seanix laptop, or a 
> rebranded CLEVO laptop. Model number is: M120c
>
> Thanks,
> -Cody
>