Install or Upgrade to Fedora 7 with dud DVD

[Michael]

From: Simon Slater <pyevet at aapt.net.au>
> 
>  I'm helping an older lady from church get set up with a laptop and
> software so she can finish a book nearly ready for publication and to
> start on her next.  After some looking about, we settled on an Acer
> Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P drive (the price + cashback
> left plenty in her budget for printer etc).  I installed FC6 to
> experiment with dual booting for the first time.  All went well.
> 
>         I bought DVD media for Fedora 7 (yes I'm still on dialup) to
> take
> advantage of the new featuresbut could not install.  After 4 days of
> reading posts here and on Bugzilla (this drive is one mentioned
> there),
> I think I now know the problems, but can't find a solution other than
> wait for Fedora 8 and hope it is fixed.


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