What DVD drive works with Fedora?

[Kam Leo]

On 5/24/07, Andreas Bernauer <fedora at lysium.de> wrote:
> Ada Ho wrote on Thu, May 24 2007 at 21:22 (-0700):
> >
> >
> > I have tried to install Fedora (Fedora 6, Fedora 5, Fedora 2) on my pc using
> > a Sony DVD RW DV-Q120A.
> >
> > No matter which version of Fedora I use, the installation doesn't run. In
> > the case of Fedora 6, Anaconda
> >
> > Never starts and I get a blue screen and no response except to
> > <alt><cntrl><delete>.
>
> Can you boot other DVDs?  We once had a DVD writer here that did not
> boot from any DVD, no matter the OS to be installed.  We then bought a
> simple read-only drive which worked.
>
> Andreas.

If you burn your own CD/DVDs you may have better luck using DVD+R
media. Burn at one half the maximum speed of the burner or slower.

If you are experiencing problems with your graphics card use "vga=791"
at the boot prompt.