Install or Upgrade to Fedora 7 with dud DVD

[Simon Slater]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:38 +1000, Simon Slater wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:27 -0500, Michael wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > This site will take care of you.
> > 
> > http://fedorasolved.org/
> > 
> Thanks Michael.  Downloading the rescue CD iso now.  Will let you know
> how it goes.  I had thought about the rescue CD, but focussed on the
> boot.iso for some reason instead, probably the longer download time.
> I guess it would be good to register with fedorasolved to support the
> community.
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Simon
> 
Thanks for your help Michael.  With the advice from Chris (other part of
thread) the install has worked, so I have stopped the download - it was
only 20% of the way through.  Will start working through the extras on
the laptop one-by-one now.

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Regards
Simon