I’ve been trying fruitlessly for the past few days trying to install Fedora 9 from the official i386 install DVD. The SHA1 sum validated fine, and I burned it to a new DVD-R disc.
On inserting it into the machine I was planning to install on, and then post my impressions here on FOSSwire from, I received two errors. The system boots from the isolinux menu without a problem, and works right up until you select to install from your CD/DVD media.
Initially, I kept being asked for a driver from a driver floppy. There was no specific information as to what driver it was searching for, and I was stumped as Fedora 8 previously installed without a problem on the same hardware.
Later, this no longer appeared, but instead I got this:
If anyone out there in the community has experienced this issue too, I’d be extremely grateful if they would let me know. Also, any potential solutions to the problem would be a great help.
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bart wrote:
I’ve had a similar issue last year on my (back then) new computer, and it happened with every distro I used, except Ubuntu. I did manage once to get Suse working though. The problem appeared to be the controller for my DVD-rom. The software for it had to be manually loaded. Perhaps it is a similar problem. If you get the option to load your drivers manually, I’d try it that way, ofcourse, try to find out what hardware you have first.
good luck
# Posted on 17-May-08 at 6:10 pm
John Bailey wrote:
Fedora since F7 can be a little fussy about DVD drives. The F7 live CD didn’t even boot properly when I was using my Pioneer DVDRW drive, but I had an old LG DVDROM drive that now works perfectly. Could be a similar thing here. Especially as it was unable to find the disk, which was the same error I got.
# Posted on 18-May-08 at 5:57 am
Binny V A wrote:
I installed Fedora 9 yesterday - I did not get this error. Still, I did not like the latest Fedora - KDE4 is too ‘alpha’ for me.
# Posted on 20-May-08 at 5:04 pm
italpa wrote:
I had a similar problem as N.1 (bart).
The screen froze after installing files, using either drive LG or Philips.
I was obliged to come back to Fedora 8 that works superbly
# Posted on 26-May-08 at 4:41 pm
Peter wrote:
I imagine it is a DVD drive issue then - for the record, I have a NEC DVD+-RW drive (can’t pull up the exact product information right now, but it might help someone else with this drive).
# Posted on 27-May-08 at 7:26 am