installing fedora 5 on p3 dell latitude notebook

[jlewin]

I am attempting to install fedora 5 over a debian/gnu shell only. i purchased the magazine with 5 disks from future. when i press endter at the graphical load menu i can watch the plaintext as it goes through a load process and then stops at : running /sbin/loader
it does not go any further from here. the computer is not frozen or locked up i can hear it working it is just not going any further. any one been through this before? or have any advice?

[bob]

So, you never even get to the Media test to see if the CD's are good, right? I'd start with a fresh batch of CD's from either http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/ or http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ The FedoraUnity site has ISO's that are kept current. If you can use bittorrent to do the download that might give you the most recent version.

[jlewin]

i had figured that that might be my only recourse. just seems to bad since i paid 20 bucks to get the cds with the "magazine" thinking that would solve any problem i might have if i made a download or burning mistake. oh well i guess it's worth it for that cool penguin poster