On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 15:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > loader on the system's harddrive. It appears your machine has lost its > > ability to boot from the CD drive, which paired with your install dying at > > 70% would indicate perhaps your CD drive has gone kaput. > > Some boxes will do stupid things with CD boot. One way to be sure of what > is happening is to go into the BIOS and set it to boot from CD-ROM, > and nothing else. > > At least one box I have here requires that some days The CDROM drive on the laptop is indeed a bit flaky these days. I re-seated the drive several times. Finally, I was able to use the "FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso" As suggested by John Reiser, I will try an install directly from RawHide. Next, I am attempting an FTP install from: ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/development/i386/os I hope this will go okay. At this point at least Anaconda is running. I am crossing-my-fingers. :) Thanks, Ernest > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list