DVD install

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 9 20:17:38 UTC 2004


Kevin Old wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:07:01 -0600, Richard Humphrey
><rlhumphrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Sorry, this is Fedora Core 3. Forgot to mention that.
>>
>>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:04:58 -0600, Richard Humphrey
>>
>>
>><rlhumphrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    
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>>>I have  A ThinkPad with CD/RW - DVD and so I downloaded the DVD ISO
>>>and burned it on another machine. When I boot up from the DVD i get
>>>the asked what type of media I am installing from. There is no listing
>>>for DVD so I choose CD-ROM. When it tries to verify it says it cant
>>>find the Fedora files.
>>>
>>>Should there be a listing for DVD or should the CD install work or am
>>>I missing something here?
>>>      
>>>
>
>That's weird, I installed from DVD and wasn't asked which type of
>media I was using....it just went into mediacheck.
>  
>
Same here

>Try booting with "linux mediacheck" and it should launch right into that.
>
>BTW, the first few screens of the DVD install are extremely slow. 
>After you get past selecting your language it seems to speed up.  At
>some points it was 5 minutes between "screens".
>
>  
>
I didn't have this problem on a fresh install but did on an update install.

Gerry




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