installation problems

[Vinicius]

Jeff Ratliff escreveu:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 03:26:34PM -0500, Andrew Blechman wrote:
> 
>>Hello.
>>I am relatively new to Linux and decided that I would use my old computer
>>to play around with it.  It is an AMD K6-3 400MHz machine.  I have been
>>trying to install various Linux platforms, and none of them work!  I have
>>used Redhat in the past so I decided to try Fedora Core 3; but when I
>>insert the CD it gives me the boot screen, and after pressing the enter
>>key it just goes to a black screen with a flashing curser.  I'm pretty
>>sure the CD's are okay (I downloaded them) since I tried the same thing on
>>my newer computer and it went to the installation page without a hitch.
>>
>>Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm starting to get very frustrated with all
>>the failed attempts.  I've tried Knoppix and SuSE, and they don't work
>>either.  The only one that worked was DSL, but I'd rather have something
>>a little better.  Also, DSL seems to only be a CD boot, and I wanted to
>>put it on my hard drive.
>>
> 
>   You still haven't really told us what your hardware is. I've got an 
> AMD K6-3 400 on an Asus P5A motherboard that's successfully run Fedora
> (Core 1, 2, and 3) on 64 megs of RAM (now 192 megs) for over a year. It's
> got an old Riva TNT video card. 
> 
> What motherboard are you using? What graphics card? Do you have the 
> latest BIOS for this motherbaord? You said you had and 8 gig hard drive, 
> anything else (CD-ROM, add on cards, etc)? Is it IDE or SCSI? These kind 
> of details help.
>  
> 

Have the Fedora's CDs passed the checksum test?
Could be a CD-ROM problem?