ALL live fedora11 cd/dvd freezing at install

[zerobug]

This is my Fedora 11 installation review:

The pc (cd2, 7600gs, 2gb ram) boots ok from any of the many Fedora live cd/dvd.

After booting it goes to a nice window with a (3 colored flashing forward motion) tollbar at the bottom, where the words Generic 11 are written at the bottom right.

So far so good: no questions to answer, the Dvd is speaning out loud. 2 min later the above mentioned screen changes into a b&w verbose mode sreen.

After a dozen of written lines, where the last one says "bridge firewalling ..." the drive noise gradually extinguishes, its red light turns off, the b&w verbose screen dies and even the Pc looks like dead too. Could be waiting here until next day, nothing more happens. So, I do various alt/ctrl/del, until the Cd/dvd (liteon) ejects and the pc reboots.

This is really CRAZZY. Lately I'v been trying many different distribution installations and this never happened. It's equal with any of the many fedora live cd/dvd's, window manager's, 32/64 bit. I did try last week, 2weeks before, today.... and did also try fedora Omega but is the same result at the end.

I wonder if this is just me, missing some Fedora fundamental specific thing, or if ithis has happened to some of you.

I browsed and searched but this looks like an uncommon issue, as I didn't find nothing similar.

[CSchwangler]

Indeed, this is a rather uncommon problem. Personally, I never experienced such a problem with any of the live CDs. However, you should provide more information on your system, if you want someone to help you. One thing comes to my mind immediately. Do you have internet connection and (preferably) DHCP during installation? I have read about some problems during installation without proper internet connection.

[zerobug]

[/QUOTE=CSchwangler;1248826]Indeed, this is a rather uncommon problem. Personally, I never experienced such a problem with any of the live CDs. However, you should provide more information on your system, if you want someone to help you. One thing comes to my mind immediately. Do you have internet connection and (preferably) DHCP during installation? I have read about some problems during installation without proper internet connection.[/QUOTE]


Thank you CSchwangler for your interest.

My system details are:
mb - gigabyte 965p-dq6
cpu - intel c2d e6300
ram - 2x1gb ddr2 800
gpu - nvidia 7600 gs
hd1- samsung 300 gb
hd2 - hitachi 40 gb
1 liteon cd/dvd r/rw
....

Regarding your question about the internet connection during installation, I'm affraid I don't have. I mean: my modem is a vodafone usb hsdap mobile broadband.

I tried to install the Fedora live cd's with it connected (as I use to do with other distro's) and without it connected to the pc (just with fedora, to exclude any hardware incompatibility). The result is the same. I don't think that the Fedora live Cd would detect this modem. So far only the last version of network manager seems to support it.

Do you think that the fedora live Cd/Dvd wouldn't install at all without a functional net connection ?

[CSchwangler]

There are several posts on the forum, which report that installation failed without internet connection. Here are just two:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...stall+internet

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...stall+internet

I am not sure how F10 handles it. Did you try out the F10 live CD? If that works, you could try to install F10 and then upgrade to F11, if you want.

[zerobug]

Install the F10 and then upgrade to F11. Yes, I've been thinking to do it. What has stopped me is that first I need to find out if F10 support my modem, as until today I noticed that only very recent distro's include the last version of network manager I mentioned above.

So, first I'll have a look into the links you've pointed and then I'll have a look into the F10 details.

Thanks for your help. Surely I'll come here later for a feed back.

[zerobug]

Finally, its done. I had to go back to F 10, install it and then, upgraded to F 11.

So I have F 11 installed and working ok, so far.

Anyway, considering the number of pages in this install help forum, there are many perceived issues in this F 11 live cd/dvd and it is a pity that after almost three months, nothing was done to adjust and replace the iso's from the mirrors.