I tried irqpoll and all-generic-ide with FC5, it didnot work for me, I also had to use pci=nommconf. I suppose I can try FC6 now. When you say you read and write CD/DVD, do you mean after the installation, linux would recognize the DVD drive? Do you have a CD/DVD drive or just CD? (some people were saying they had trouble with DVD, but they are ok with CD) THanks, lisa. -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=137335&topic_id=30405&forum=10#forumpost137335 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame lisamiao2@xxxxxxxxxx