going bonkers trying to install fc-5

[Peter Reed]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On 6/18/06, Peter Horst <phorst at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here.  I had
>> a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set.
>> Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither
>> computer would "see" the boot disk.  Thought, "oh, well."  Needed a new
>> box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday.  Burned fc-5 iso
>> disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is
>> present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any
>> changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot
>> from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery
>> disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't
>> figure out what I might be doing wrong.  Can a disk checkout hash-wise
>> and still be bad? What am I missing here?  Could it be the windows
>> software I am using to burn with?
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> If you are using CD-RW media use 1X-4X rated media only.  4X-12X media
> may work. 12X and higher speed RW media are not most likely not
> compatible with older CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives.
>
> If using a DVD-ROM drive switch to DVD+R or the slow 1X-4X CD-RW
> media.  Also regardless of media type burn at a lower speed or half of
> the maximum rated media speed.
>
I had this same problem with not being able to boot off the CD even 
though it was setup properly in the bios.  It turned out that I was 
using CD-RW media instead of plain old CD-R media.  Once I switched to 
the CD-R media everything was fine.  Do not know why this would make a 
difference but for me it did.  Good luck
Peter