really weired problem...installation media not found

bakwas_internet · #1 26th May 2004, 10:44 AM

hi,
i downloaded and burned the 4 cds of FC2 .....yesterday i also completed a success full installation on a dell poweredge 2600 using these cds....mediacheck of these cds is also ok.....today i tried to install another ibm netvista box with intel 845 chipset....the cds booted fine ....but after language and keyboard selection it asks for location of installation media giving following options

local cd-rom
hard drive
nfs
ftp
http

which is really weired and i have never encountered this dialog before....i tried to select local cd rom but then it gives error that no installation medium found....can someone help me in this matter.....thanks in advance...

bakwas

ckr · #2 27th May 2004, 07:16 PM

Hi,

I had the same problem at a school I intern at. We tried the install cd on several of the same model computer and received the same results you listed. We then tried it on another computer which was the same model, except for a different model cdrom drive, and the install worked fine. I would say that the problem lies with the cdrom drive.

steve_waters · #3 16th February 2006, 08:48 AM

Did you run an MD% check on the ISO images?

Did the CD pass the media check once it was read?

But sounds like you could be right the final drive that read the CD may be more fault tolerant than the others.

taurus · #4 17th February 2006, 12:22 AM

Also, it wouldn't hurt to burn it at a slower speed like 4x instead of the highest that your burner or CD would allow!!!

steve_waters · #5 20th February 2006, 05:57 AM

Does burning at a slower speed really help the process I mean the burner was designd to burn at it's max, I would be more worried about the integrity of the ISO. With burners having buffer underrun protection etc. I have thought that burning at a slower speed would have been an old issue.

I have been wrong before though, just once

John Patterson · #6 7th March 2006, 04:14 PM

Try:

linux ide=nodma

Nick Roman · #7 13th May 2006, 04:18 AM

I have a similar problem with Fedora Core 4 (FC4). I tried to install some packages with the utility on the first installation CD, but then when it tells me to put in CD #2, it won't recognize it. Every time I hit ok it says there is a problem and it can't recognize the disk. However, I can go into my file system manager (Nautilus) and doule-click on the CD-ROM drive (which happens to be a CD-RW drive) and it opens and I can read files just fine.
What's up with that!?

I have no idea what to do. Obviously the drive works fine and the CD is ok too.