installation help

[Ryne Sechrist]

ok well I have just been having problem after problem trying to install 
fedora....i'm trying to install it on a compaq presario, 190 ram, 800 MHZ, 
amd k6, ati graphics, it has windows 98 on it right now but i'm doing a full 
delete of windows and replacing it with fedora 5....well first off i 
downloaded the fives images off the site and burnt them as images...i then 
tried to install them which the first cd failed...so i tested all my cds and 
only disk 2 and 5 passed...so i redownloaded from another mirror the 
rest....well on the second media check attempt only disk one passed....so i 
redownloaded the others from another mirror...well that media check didn't 
pass either one...so i tried again on another mirror and check failed 
again....so i tried another and failed and the last time i tried they failed 
again...well i was wondering "well disk 5 passed before so lets see if it 
passes a second time" and it didn't...so basically i got disk 1,2,and 5 to 
pass and failed 7 times on disks 3 and 4, and i retested disk 5 and it 
failed....so i tried to install fedora core 5 anyway....well everythign was 
going fine untill it got to the installation of the first disk...i got 
through 64% on the first disk then all of the sudden my screen turned into a 
bunch of text....well i'm at the end of my ropes and i have no idea what to 
do now....i really want fedora but i can't seem to find stable images or if 
my computer is too old or what? any help would be great...like i said i 
really want linux and i have been tring everything to get it to run.....any 
suggestions?   thanks