I think my problem was with not recognizing the dvd drive after getting a few steps into the install process (reminds me of older Windows installation where the operating system would forget there was a CD attached). In the case of Fedora 3 with CD-Rom installation (all four of them), it just hung during "post install" operations. Typically, this has happened with really old equipment in my experience.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:06 AM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] DVD on Fedora Jim, Good luck. Hope your hardware upgrades do the trick. I d/l'd the latest FC4_X86_64 recently from two mirror sites and got the same "incorrect" md5 sum from both: The md5 sum from what I d/l'd from 2 mirror sites: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/Fediora_Core_4> ls -al total 5733822 drwxr-xr-x 2 rodney users 160 2005-06-16 08:16 . drwxr-xr-x 3 rodney users 112 2005-06-16 01:01 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rodney users 2932850688 2005-06-16 03:09 FC4-x86_64-DVD_badMD5.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 rodney users 2932850688 2005-06-16 08:16 FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 rodney users 954 2005-06-16 06:24 SHA1SUM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Documents/Fediora_Core_4> md5sum *.iso 901ef29f7231e260d3318f85dbfe40ae FC4-x86_64-DVD_badMD5.iso 901ef29f7231e260d3318f85dbfe40ae FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso The expected md5sum -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 2f166c7cff4e7334744d48e642b3287693d982ed FC4-x86_64-DVD.iso I think Mr. O mentioned that he had a similar problem. Has anyone d/l'd an FC4 dvd image and gotten the "correct" md5sum? I recall a few months ago, I d/l'd an FC3_x86_64_dvd.iso and got the correct md5sum. Rodney > As nice as DVD installations seem, my older hardware would not allow > it. I was trying to install on an old Athlon T-Bird 650mhz/Soyo board > with 128M but neither Fedora Core 3 or 4, nor debian would complete > the installation via DVD. I did not download the CD images for core 4 > however, I am going to do so today. > > I have also ordered a new Syntax 266AD board with a Duron 1.8G processor. > That and 512Mbytes of memory should do the trick. > What happens is that the DVD versions of Fedora 4 and debian boot > properly, then start installing however I soon get a message that the > system can't find the CD. As I said, I suspect it's the old hardware. > > I will report my success or lack thereof later. > > Thanks to all, Jim Darrough > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mr O > Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:57 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] DVD on Fedora > > I've always used Xine for DVD playback when I watch a movie on my computer. > > As for Fedora on DVD... I'm downloading the Fedora 4 torrent now. Hope > I have it eventually :) > > > > --- Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, as far as installing from dvds... DVD's are real nice to install > > from because you can put a lot of stuff on a computer w/out > > attending it. its fairly fast to install a lot of software. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
