Install or Upgrade to Fedora 7 with dud DVD
I'm helping an older lady from church get set up with a laptop and
software so she can finish a book nearly ready for publication and to
start on her next. After some looking about, we settled on an Acer
Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P drive (the price + cashback
left plenty in her budget for printer etc). I installed FC6 to
experiment with dual booting for the first time. All went well.
I bought DVD media for Fedora 7 (yes I'm still on dialup) to take
advantage of the new featuresbut could not install. After 4 days of
reading posts here and on Bugzilla (this drive is one mentioned there),
I think I now know the problems, but can't find a solution other than
wait for Fedora 8 and hope it is fixed.
I downloaded a boot.iso from
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/...
but still no go. The development boot.iso worked but didn't like the DVD media.
What is the best course of action? Stay with FC6 and wait for Fedora
8? Set up a local repo from the Fedora 7 DVD on another box and yum
upgrade ?
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Simon Slater