going bonkers trying to install fc-5
Gregory P. Ennis
PoMec at PoMec.Net
Mon Jun 19 04:35:37 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst 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
>
Peter,
I had the same problem with an E-Machine and FC4 and finally figured out
it was a problem with the CD drive. For some reason the bios would not
boot to that drive. I swapped drives from a different E-Machine and it
worked fine. I don't have my notes with me tonight and do not remember
the kind of drive, but it drove me bananas until I stumbled on the
solution.
Hope this helps!!
Greg
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