Fedora-16-i686-Live-Electronics-Lab.iso installation failure.

[Yusuf Matcheswala]

I am trying to install Fedora-16-i686-Live-Electronics-Lab.iso on my Dell
Inspiron B130. System specs are:
Intel Pentium M processor @ 1.7GHz
32bit architecture
RAM ~1MB
HDD ~40GB

I have a DVD Live Image of the above mentioned file which I downloaded from
this link:
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/#downloads
and I chose the Direct Download-32bit PC edition option.

I then booted from the DVD player on which I had copied the above ISO
image.

Once the Fedora screen came up the very first message I got was as follows:
[image: Click image for larger version Name: gnomemsgcrop.png Views: 16
Size: 36,7 KB ID:
22347]http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22347&d=1324362370

I clicked "Close" on this window and it took me to what seemed like the
Fedora worspace. I then clicked on Applications->System Tools->Install To
hardrive
It asked me various questions and I selected default on all (including the
question about partitions, for this I selected the second option). So it
started doing what looked like an instllation to disk, it formatted the
drive etc. and then came to this mesage:
[image: Click image for larger version Name: unrecoverableErrCrop.png
Views: 11 Size: 76,9 KB ID:
22348]http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22348&d=1324362473

Now, I have no idea what this is. Previous to Fedora, I had installed
Ubuntu LINUX on the same system and that installed like a song. I started
all over again and this time entered troubleshoot mode. I ran the memory
test and it ran OK with no errors. The I ran the media test and it said
something to the effect that media should not be used to install. What can
the problem be.......Ubuntu did not have an issue with the media and
previous to that I had Windows XP and that was running just fine. What
issue is FEL installation having? There is not enough information for me, a
novice with these LINUX systems to debug the problem. Can some LINUX guru
shed more light on this? I'd be greatly obliged.

Thanks

Yusuf

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Yusuf Matcheswala
 wrote:
| RAM ~1MB
--

1 MB?

---
| The I ran the media test and it said something to the effect
| that media should not be used to install.
--

Please verify the downloaded .iso image before using it.

https://fedoraproject.org/verify

SK

--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

[Yusuf Matcheswala]

The original issue described below was due to a bad DVD media. When I
installed from a USB it installed without a hitch.

Thanks

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Yusuf Matcheswala
wrote:
> I am trying to install Fedora-16-i686-Live-Electronics-Lab.iso on my Dell
> Inspiron B130. System specs are:
> Intel Pentium M processor @ 1.7GHz
> 32bit architecture
> RAM ~1MB
> HDD ~40GB
>
> I have a DVD Live Image of the above mentioned file which I downloaded
> from this link:
> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/#downloads
> and I chose the Direct Download-32bit PC edition option.
>
> I then booted from the DVD player on which I had copied the above ISO
> image.
>
> Once the Fedora screen came up the very first message I got was as follows:
> [image: Click image for larger version Name: gnomemsgcrop.png Views: 16
> Size: 36,7 KB ID: 22347]http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22347&d=1324362370
>
> I clicked "Close" on this window and it took me to what seemed like the
> Fedora worspace. I then clicked on Applications->System Tools->Install To
> hardrive
> It asked me various questions and I selected default on all (including the
> question about partitions, for this I selected the second option). So it
> started doing what looked like an instllation to disk, it formatted the
> drive etc. and then came to this mesage:
> [image: Click image for larger version Name: unrecoverableErrCrop.png
> Views: 11 Size: 76,9 KB ID: 22348]http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22348&d=1324362473
>
> Now, I have no idea what this is. Previous to Fedora, I had installed
> Ubuntu LINUX on the same system and that installed like a song. I started
> all over again and this time entered troubleshoot mode. I ran the memory
> test and it ran OK with no errors. The I ran the media test and it said
> something to the effect that media should not be used to install. What can
> the problem be.......Ubuntu did not have an issue with the media and
> previous to that I had Windows XP and that was running just fine. What
> issue is FEL installation having? There is not enough information for me, a
> novice with these LINUX systems to debug the problem. Can some LINUX guru
> shed more light on this? I'd be greatly obliged.
>
> Thanks
>
> Yusuf
>
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