FC4 Not installing (DVD)

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:48 -0700, Austin Isler wrote:
> Hello guys and gals.
> I was also one of the people who were experiencing slow downloads on BT, 
> but I stuck with it anyways. 3 days later and I have it. Now here is the 
> problem. Right away I noticed that the md5sum did not match the one in 
> the text file that came with the iso. I said "what the hell" and burned 
> it to DVD anyways. Now when I restarted my computer to allow it to boot 
> from the DVD, it acted like nothing was on the DVD and just when 
> straight to booting my HD. Also when the DVD is in the drive it gives me 
> error messages when its searching for volumes, and then when KDE boots, 
> the PC freezes. It all seems quite strange, after all I downloaded the 
> same iso as everyone else.
> 
> 
> Austin
> 

the file has an sha1sum, not an md5sum.
use sha1sum to verify the file.

How did you burn it? A common mistake is to not burn the iso, but
instead burn a CD/DVD that has the iso file on it.