Shawn Hayden wrote:
I downloaded the ISO for i386, and verfied the checksum. I boot to the Cdrom, and at the first prompt to install fedora or change boot parameters, nothing happens when I press enter. A "." shows up. If I try and type any other boot parameters, the letters travel down the left side of the screen. Very strange behavior. I am using a Dell C600 laptop.
I am curious if you aree using the CD or DVD images. I have downloaded the DVD image dwice (once from a mirror, the second time through BitTorrent). The first image I burned twice, and neither was able to install, failing early into the install (the first disk would not even get as far as the disk test feature).
Both downloads *passed* their sha1sum checks. I burned the first one through Nautilus ("Write to CD"), the second through K3b, which *failed* the disk in verification mode.
To eliminate any problems with my CD burner. I tested the second download by booting the DVD image within a VMware session, and had it do a disk verification there; that verification *failed*
My only conclusion is that the DVD image, as being distributed, is itself defective. I have tested multiple image sources, multiple HW configurations (ThinkPad T41 & VMware 5.0), and effectively 3 different "write" methods (counting the mounting of the disk image in VMW as a write).
I will have to grab the CD images to see what happens that way.