F9 pre installer woes

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 15:14:56 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:49 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I booted from the DVD, then tested the media.
> > 
> > The installer then ejected the disk.
> > 
> > I then selected continue, and now every time I click "OK",
> > the installer reloads the disk and displays a screen that says
> > 
> > 
> >                       Error
> > OK
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >                     ---------
> >                     |   OK  |
> >                     ---------
> 
> I should have said: this is the text mode installer.

There's a bit of a race/timing issue there. Put in the disc and *wait a
few seconds* while the machine recognizes it. Once the machine
recognizes it you should be able to hit "OK" and it'll continue.

-w
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/attachments/20080430/b9f95bcb/attachment.sig>


More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list