Fedora give up

[M.Hockings]

Kent Pirkle wrote:

>I would try a different brand of CDs, or, buy a set from a vendor. I've
>found that Linux installs in general are sensitive to the quality of the
>CD and the burn. When I installed Fedora on the first machine, I had
>some problems on both CD2 and CD3 reading an RPM. I used CD-RW's, so I
>just erased and reburned the image again and it worked. Subsequent
>installs went with no problem. You might also try burning at a slower
>speed. 
>
>On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 22:36, Chris Sparks wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello again,
>>
>>Well I really am kind of disappointed that I had so much problems trying 
>>to get Fedora installed.  Never had this much trouble in all the years I 
>>had Redhat.
>>
>>I tried installing Windoze 2000 and it liked my CD rom and hard drive 
>>and memory choice.  Didn't complain a stitch.  I am in a dilemma in that 
>>I really don't want to use Windoze 2000 in my car projects.  The idea of 
>>it crashing on a regular basis bugs me.  Does anyone have any other 
>>suggestions for me to try on my Fedora build.  I have tried to replace 
>>the bad rpms and still they are bad.  I don't think downloading from a 
>>trusted website would yield bad files.  And given all the talk of 
>>problems with Fedora I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion to which 
>>version of Redhat (pre Fedora) that was somewhat stable?
>>
>>THanks for any help,
>>Chris Sparks
>>    
>>

 From what I have read about people having install problems your simple 
advice would help them immensely:

>You might also try burning at a slower
>speed. 
>
That is, people buy fast CD burners and the cheapest CD's and expect it 
to work.  Burn the CD's at the rate they are made for (or slower) and 
you won't have any problems.  Also do the RH CD check thing at the start 
of the install.  A little patience here will save a lot of grief later.

Mike