On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:27 -0500, Michael wrote: > From: Simon Slater <pyevet@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
