going bonkers trying to install fc-5

[Kam Leo]

On 6/19/06, Peter Reed <mrdeadworry at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 6/18/06, Peter Horst <phorst at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> >> Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here.  I had
> >> a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set.
> >> Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither
> >> computer would "see" the boot disk.  Thought, "oh, well."  Needed a new
> >> box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday.  Burned fc-5 iso
> >> disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is
> >> present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any
> >> changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot
> >> from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery
> >> disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't
> >> figure out what I might be doing wrong.  Can a disk checkout hash-wise
> >> and still be bad? What am I missing here?  Could it be the windows
> >> software I am using to burn with?
> >>
> >> Any help greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >
> > If you are using CD-RW media use 1X-4X rated media only.  4X-12X media
> > may work. 12X and higher speed RW media are not most likely not
> > compatible with older CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives.
> >
> > If using a DVD-ROM drive switch to DVD+R or the slow 1X-4X CD-RW
> > media.  Also regardless of media type burn at a lower speed or half of
> > the maximum rated media speed.
> >
> I had this same problem with not being able to boot off the CD even
> though it was setup properly in the bios.  It turned out that I was
> using CD-RW media instead of plain old CD-R media.  Once I switched to
> the CD-R media everything was fine.  Do not know why this would make a
> difference but for me it did.  Good luck
> Peter
>

Read item 13 from Nashua Media,
http://www.nashuamedia.com/faqcdrw.html, for the answer to your
question.