Fedora Core 4 fails installation hangs shortly after staring the process

[John Bray]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 09:44 -0400, Benjamin Opatowski wrote:
> I have easily installed all the previous Fedoras (1-3) on the same
> machine with no problems.  The Fedora 4 installation hangs - the
> screen just goes blank - shortly after the first installation CD takes
> off.  The media was checked, registering passed on all four CDs.  I
> don't have clue what's wrong.
>  
> Ben

this happened to me when i had USB stuff plugged in.  i believe, but
don't know for sure, that it was the webcam which caused the problem.

after install, it hung similarly, at least until i installed a proper
PWC driver.

john