Strange installation problem

[Mike McCarty]

Manisha Sathe wrote:

> 1)I downloaded all 4 iso files (FC4 for i386) from one of the mirror 
> site -> checked the sha1sum for all and later copied on to CD.

Please use narrower lines.

> 2)Booted from 1st CD - i got the first screen menu for fedora - to 
> install.... press enter.... boot: etc
>  
> I tried many combinations at boot prompt - pressing enter, linux text, 
> linux mediacheck
>  
> but always end result is same - it runs some commands on console and 
> screen become black and then from bottom it starts becoming bright 
> slowly after some time it shows 2 blue strips at both sides with 
> reddish black as middle strip. Nothing comes out, nothing happens i hv 
> to restart the laptop.
>  

What variations did you try? Did you try acpi=off?

> I am on Inspiron 9300 with Intel Pentium M Processor. I already hv 
> winXP and win2K loaded on this m/c (on E and C drive respectively). On 
> third partition i want to load Linux.
>  
> Pls let me know what's going wrong here.

With a little more information, I'm sure someone here can help. But
you need to provide more information.

Mike

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