Cannot start Live CD (Sony VAIO VGN-AR41L)

[djrayon]

Okey - downloaded and burned both - DVD installation disc and Live CD.
In this topic i want to run liveCD. Everything starts up - i see some buffer errors but they are long gone before i can read them. Avahi daemon fails to start.
When localhost login: comes the X cannot start i tryes ~3 times and fails.

I have Sony VAIO VGN-AR41L
http://live.djr.pri.ee/everest/djr-vaio/DJR-Vaio.htm
i think something is not compactible or smthng.
When i use DVD installer a dos like installation is comming and asking which type of media contains the packages which the installer installs - when i select CDROM it asks there are any devices and wants me to select a driver or give the driver on a device.
When i try select a device where to load the drivers (i dont have any but tryed anyway)every sda,sdb etc fails to mount.
none of the selected drivers for as well

Anyway. did someone get my problem - im quite frustrated ... ive tryed over 1,5 days now :(

Thanks for any help :)
(sorry for my language mistakes)

[SlowJet]

1. Run a (md5sum and / or sha1sum) mydownloaded.iso
against the orginal downloaded file.
Got to the website and get the checksum.txt file to compare the strings to what you see on the terminal. They must match.)

(If you download with a torrent client it will check each bit (256K) and make it even more likely to be correct. ftp does no check.)

2. Burn as a tree (not as one big file.) Use a slower speed on older CD-ROM devices.
"i see some buffer errors"
This could be the burn or the device or the speed, so you must check it again after the burn. The beginning menu may have a media check or a shell (F2) to run md5sum or sha1sum. It must say it passed.

3. Selecting the driver. This is caused by the drv not being in the OS, or a bug.
If it offers one select that, otherwise use the dropdownlist to select one.
(It may go by the internal chip set, not the brand name. So look yours up on the web using google or yahoo, and see if they offer a driver for Linux.)

4. It still may fail so you will need to a. get newer Linux compatible CD/DVD-rom device, b. install from another source like the net.

5. And that's only the beginning - the parts not starting and errors need to be handled as they occur, and an yum update may be needed to get pass bugs.

good luck,

SJ

[ryptyde]

Are you trying the Fedora 8 test 2 release or the Fedora 7 release. Why I ask is because I have a Sony laptop that has Fedora 7 installed but will not run any of the Fedora 8 Test 2 liveCDs and I have Intel "Dual Core" and wonder if there is a connection.

[djrayon]

Are you trying the Fedora 8 test 2 release or the Fedora 7 release. Why I ask is because I have a Sony laptop that has Fedora 7 installed but will not run any of the Fedora 8 Test 2 liveCDs and I have Intel "Dual Core" and wonder if there is a connection.
Fedora 7
SlowJet:
i have a brand new laptop
I have used many other cd's also for the liveCD. ill try to boot later and check that if it would pass the test.

[djrayon]

it passes the test. it says something about device sr0 I/O buffer error. Ubuntu doesnt boot also :/ whats the problem. it goes untill it should start x (fedora) but the x isnt starting - how can i change the x settings?

the same CD started up perfectly on my other laptop (IBM T23)
Its old but it works :) - and now - my brand new one - doesnt recognize my cd-rom?
I tryed with an external usb cd/dvd rom also - same problems - it was TSST Corp something - my primary cd/dvd reader in my sony is matsh1ta something (lol it *** mat****a :))