CD requested from DVD

[rleal]

Hi all:
I'm new to Fedora. I downloaded the F7 iso image for x86_64 arch (bittorrent). Data integrity/checksum OK. When booting and trying to do a new install (on top of opensuse and XP) it comes to a point when the screen asks me "What kind of media contains the packages to be installed?: local CDROM, HDD, NFS, ftp, http", ignoring the dvd on the drive. I've searched through the forum but found no satisfactory workarounds.

Any suggestions (else than resign to my current config ) would be appreciated.

Regards and thnkx in advance.

r.-

[rleal]

Nobody there? - plz help!

[lazlow]

When It asks that question answer CDROM. As almost all DVD drives are also CDROM drives they just use the term generically.

[stoat]

Hi rleal,

F7 probably isn't recognizing (or doesn't support) your DVD drive. It's been a fairly common issue last month. The brand name Pioneer comes up a lot, but so do others. Here's a little collection of posts with the same problem...

http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=156543
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=157680
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=159340
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=157142
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=157645
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=159595
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=156444
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/s...d.php?t=156559

...and a bugzilla report related to it...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=242956

There are ways to get F7 installed anyway (install from the ISO on the hard drive, http, ftp, etc.). But even if it installs by one of those methods, the DVD drive is still usually not usable.

I realize this didn't help, but at least you know more.


P.S.: Actually, when the DVD installation goes normally (like it did for me), you're not even supposed to see that dialog box to choose a media location. Instead, after language & keyboard selections, the graphic anaconda installer is supposed to start.

[rleal]

Thanks a lot stoat. That's a pity. I have two LG DVD-R/+RW GSA-H22N/H12 drives on a ASUS M2NPV-VM MoBo. Does that mean that I won't be able to access these once F7 is installed??

On the other hand, I already tried installing from the hdd: I have two MAXTOR SATA2 7200 divided in a number of ReiserFS (the most), 1 NTFS and 1 Ext2 partitions. From the wizard I just can access the Ext2 partition, where the iso F7 DVD image sits. But then the installer exits 'abnormally'. I'm getting too many troubles with this distribution even before installing... Should I try FC6 instead?

Best regards,

r.-

[Esqulax]

Couldn't you put it in the windoze or suse partition and install from there?