FC1: aborting installation while reading RPMs

[Daniel]

HI  everybody,

I'm trying to  install  Fedora Core 1 on  an AMD XP 2400 in an ASUS  
motherboard A7V8X-MX with 512 MB DDR memory, using NVIDIA GEFORCE 4 MX 
440-8x, with 64 MB DDR memory.  I'm using   yarrow -i386 (is that 
correct? I'm supposing it is).
I've been trying to install it and probably by luck I could get a first 
clean installation without any read errors on the CDs. Unfortunately I 
messed up that installation and I resolved to try again choosing    a 
complete installation (selecting all RPMs) and now I always get  the 
message "aborting  due read errors.. This is a severe error that may 
mean insuficcient space on disk or a damaged media , etc.. Your machine 
is ready to reboot now"
Well, first:
1) all CDs were tested and got a PASS message at the beginning of the 
installations
2) I'm using a  SEAGATE  Barracuda 40GB  partitioned a  20MB  with 
Windows XP Professional and  three  smaller partitions reserved to linux 
(a 196 MB reserved to /boot, a 14 GB to /, a 4 GB to /home and some 
512MB to swap, the last two logical partitions )
3) the CDs are being read in a LG 52 MAx CD reader
4) I've downloaded  the iso images and written them to disk (a SEAGATE  
20 GB in FAT32), as a secondary  slave  and  copied  bootdisk.img  with  
rawrite  and  started the installation now from dikette and a hard drive 
install a and received the same message.
To clear out my efforts:
0  I've  tried   graphics and text non installations receiving the same 
message
1)  the mesage occurs on installation phase when the program is reading 
and installing the RPMs
2)  the same message occurs each time in a different  rpm  (or CD)
3)  I tried to do a smaller installation  and got the same error mesage 
(each time is in a different RPM)
4) I went to the  BIOS  settings and tried many configuration changes:
      i) turn off caches (L1 and L2)
     ii) slow down  CPU external clock to 100 MHz (this was strapped on 
the motherboard)
     iii) slow down the DRAM frequency 
     iv) turn off  DMA transfer to all disks (it seems the installer 
doesn't care about this  setting on BIOS because messages state it is 
using UDMA to disks)
      v) change the 80 pins flat disk cable to a 40 pins  on IDE1 ( IDE2 
is using a 40 pin flat cable)
      vi) using  IDE1 (with 80 pins  flat cable)  only ( in a hard drive 
installation)
           (now I will try to use a 40 pins cable and slow down the 
machine as much as possible)
    Since I have a small network with four computers, I could install  
the same FEDORA Core 1 in a Pentium 4 whith  128MB rambus from the CDs 
withoutt any problem  with all RPMs and it is working fine.
    As an observation, on the AMD XP machine I receive some messages 
informing  about errors while reading CDs during XP instalations. The 
Windows XP installer just inform me about each one of them and  asks me 
what I want it to do: I just say it should retry reading the CD, the 
file is read  and it goes on. It's common to receive  one to three 
messages  like these in a normal Windows XP installation. All files are 
copied and none get lost. After the XP installation I never received  
amesage like that .while reading a CD. But by what I've exposed, the 
problem is not duew the CDS since it occurs in a hard drive installation.
 
      Can anyone help me with some information or suggestion  because 
I'm  stoped on this machine for many days without  getting Fedora Core 
installed? By the way, on the same machine , Windows XP Professional 
works fine.  (Well,   I'm still betting on Linux)

Regards
Daniel