On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:44:53AM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > This is true, yet incomplete. Sometimes it's the actual CD-ROM unit that > is at fault. The installer should mention that as well. Example: > > "Or perhaps the CD-ROM unit needs cleaning or is deffective." Actually it should have been disabled, the media check in FC3 is broken unless you burned the CD with padding. The ide-cd driver is broken and FC uses ide-cd not ide-scsi (sanely for all sorts of other reasons).