I cannot install FC4 on PENTIUM D 830 CPU

[foxy09ro]

I have a pentium D 830 procesor on an asus P5WD2 Premium mainboard with 1 GB of RAM DDR2 and as a video card i have an asus GeForce 6600 Silencer and a LG F900P monitor.
The problem is that I want to install FC4 and after I choose even linux noprobe at the start of installer it restarts the computer.
Please help me out on this ... i'm new in installing linux .. but i'm a qiuck learner.

Is the hardware to new and It isn't supported by linux ? (I think not !)

[rjngh]

Originally Posted by foxy09ro

I have a pentium D 830 procesor on an asus P5WD2 Premium mainboard with 1 GB of RAM DDR2 and as a video card i have an asus GeForce 6600 Silencer and a LG F900P monitor.
The problem is that I want to install FC4 and after I choose even linux noprobe at the start of installer it restarts the computer.
Please help me out on this ... i'm new in installing linux .. but i'm a qiuck learner.

Is the hardware to new and It isn't supported by linux ? (I think not !)

I have installed FC4 recently
Have you done the checksum for the ISO files?
did u download all the 4 ISO files ?

Do you have two cd drives ?

[foxy09ro]

i have FC4 on 4 cd's and I have it even on a DVD

[rjngh]

The method I used was as follows.

Insert CD no 1 in drive.
Reboot Computer.
Set boot order so that the Computer boots from CD ROM


Follow prompts.

Have You reached this far ?

[foxy09ro]

Originally Posted by rjngh

The method I used was as follows.

Insert CD no 1 in drive.
Reboot Computer.
Set boot order so that the Computer boots from CD ROM


Follow prompts.

Have You reached this far ?

I have done that already. As i said: the install process starts and when I choose "linux noprobe" or simply hit ENTER it reboots.
The question is why it reboots? Is it because the chipset or CPU are new .. and they are nit supported by kernel ?

[rjngh]

I am not a Linux Guru
I am just a user like yourself

What happens after it reboots ?

In my case This is what happened.

The machine started showing messages like a Telnet terminal
It started showing messages like
Set Video resolution
detected mouse
detected two Hard disks
it displayed nealy 50-60 lines of text (each line appearing after a few seconds and then
it was stuck on one line
something like loading from /sbin/loader
and it was stuck on this line for nearly two hours
and then
the second CD tray ejected and flashed a message on the screen
Please insert CD Disk
So I removed the CD Disk no 1 from CD drive no 1
and inserted the CD Disk no 1 into CD Drive 2
and subsequently a windows screen type screen came up and asked me if I wanted to check the CD's
and I checked the CD's one by one (1-4) and then inserted Disk no 1 into the drive no 2
and Chose the option Continue to start installation.

Even if it reboots the computer please carry on the installation

Don't worry about the earlier Data.
It does not format your drive untill much much after and it gives you a prompt asking if you wish to change the partitions that it recommends.

If you abort before this step your computer hard disk is not overwritten.