Fedora 5 Help

[Alien56]

Im new to Linux, well not new because I have yet to install any version of Linux on my laptop. I guess Linux hates me, because I've tried many distributions and have yet to get one to work. I downloaded the latest Fedora release for 32 bit computers (dvd version). I burned the iso using Alcohol 120% to a dvd, entered it into my dvd rom drive restarted the computer and to my surprise or maybe at this point with linux not to my surprise I get a message at a black screen that says "Could not find kernel image: linux" no matter what I seem to type in it just echos the same line. What can I do to get started on installing Fedora?

[marko]

Be very specific here, when you started up with the DVD in the drive, does it get to
a point where it says just says:

boot:

at the point what exactly did you do? What you should do when the "boot:" prompt
shows up is to type in "linux":

boot: linux

then hit enter,
(does a basic automatic install with the graphical installer)
or you can put in one of many options like:

boot: linux text

(uses the text installer to avoid certain gui problems)
or
boot: linux expert

(to manually pick software to install by hand)

Mark

[marko]

Did you try verifying the disk was burned ok?
One thing to try is to simply load the disk in some other
working computer with a dvd drive and make sure
you can see the files and directories -- that might
show that something went really wrong.
You should not see one big file in the disk
of the name of the iso file you downloaded and
burned (ie FC5-i386-DVD.iso), you should see
a set of files and directories.

then try media testing the dvd but this will be slow
because of it's large size, the nodma option
helps avoid false badmedia alarms on some hardware.

boot: linux ide=nodma mediacheck

only use the nodma option for testing the media, if the
media tests ok, restart the installation and don't use
the nodma option at the boot: prompt because it slows your drives down.

If that checks out, you could try turning off acpi support
for the install, some board's acpi support cause trouble
at installation time.

boot: linux acpi=off

Another thing that can help during install is to
look at the linux virtual consoles, Red Hat is
setup to write status information to some,
another one has a root command prompt, etc
you can see them by pressing
Cntl+Alt+F1
Cntl+Alt+F2
and so on from F1 to F6 (functionkeys NOT the letter F and the number)
use Cntl+Alt+F7 to get back to the gui install display

Mark

[Alien56]

No matter what I type in at the boot prompt I always get that message that the image kernel was not found. Don't know if it makes a difference but I am not using linux right now but windows xp and I want to dual boot linux on the laptop.

[marko]

Alien56,

Did you ever do a mediacheck like I outlined in post #2 in
your various attempts?

Mark

[Alien56]

I tried it all.

[massacra69]

I have the same Problem. Maybe it is the type of media (dvd +rw) that causes this behaviour.

Edit: No it is not the reason but this:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=99164