fc9 install

[Paul Newell]

Fennix and Ken:

Okay ... I'm more than willing to try anything, though this seems a bit 
counter-intuitive (so it probably should read "Okay? ...").

I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

Paul

Fennix wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Paul Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu 
> <mailto:pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Ken:
>
>     If you see later post, I provided output from 3 of the vterms
>     (f3,f4,f5) and am still looking into how to get around the fact
>     that I think there isn't a driver that works for the DVD in the
>     machine. That being said, I never did try a power off, power on,
>     boot off DVD w/o media check.
>
>     Suggestions from any and all welcome (right now I am burning 6 CD
>     boot media to see if the CD is at least understood for booting.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Paul
>
>
>     Ken Murray wrote:
>
>         On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Paul Newell
>         <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu <mailto:pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>
>          
>
>             Put them in DVD/CD drive of Linux box. I ran the media
>             check and it
>             successfully verified. Continuing on, the disk ejects with
>             an error box that
>             say, in text in upper left, "ok" and has a button to push
>             which says, of
>             course, "ok". Both DVDs do this and I tried on two
>             different Linux boxes.
>             Let's just say I'm not getting too many hints out of the
>             process of what
>             might be going on.
>                
>
>
>         Now that you know the media passes the media check, have you tried
>         just booting off the DVD and skipping the media check?
>
>
>          
>
>
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> I think that Ken Murray has the right idea.  My experience with the 
> installation of F9 is the same.  When I do the media check it reports 
> a good disk and then cannot continue the installation.  Reboot and 
> skip the media check and the installation proceeds normally.  On my 
> system this has always been the case for the numerous F9 
> install/re-installs that I have needed to do.
>
> Fennix