anaconda hangs during Fedora Core 6 upgrade attempt

[Bruce Feist]

Bruce Feist wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:51:01 -0500
>> Bruce Feist <bfeist at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>
>>> darren holland wrote:
>>>> i had problems with that. it could be the dvd images are bad. 
> 
> I've tried with another image from another site; cmp says that they're 
> identical, and I'm getting no better results.  I think I'll try cutting 
> a DVD on another computer using different software to see if that helps.

It did! It looks as though my Linux machine didn't correctly write the 
DVD, although it did pass the installation test.  I wrote a DVD using 
the same image using Nero on a Windows machine, and all was well.

Maybe the Linux box's DVD drive is allergic to the brand of DVD I used 
(Phillips).

Bruce