Installation fails randomly and PC freezes up.

[Mark Weaver]

Muhammad Ahmad wrote:
> I have an hp pavilion d1000e system with AMD athlon 64.  I am installing 
> the 64 bit version of Fedora Core 3.  I have tried several times and 
> each time the installation fails at random packages and the PC freezes.
> 
> Also the automatic partitioning tool cannot partition and returns with 
> error that / not created.  I have to manually partition the drive.  The 
> HDD is a 200 GB Maxtor IDE drive.  The system already has XP Home.  I 
> have about 60 G for Fedora.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 

it sounds as though the media you burned the iso's to is bad, or you've 
simply got a bad burn and ended up with coasters. Before doing anything 
else I would try burning the ISO's at 4x and then retry the 
installation. Your drive is definitely having trouble reading the media 
for some reason.

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