FC3 DVD slow between probing, screens, etc

Schlueri schlueri-lists at schlicker.org
Tue Nov 9 08:41:37 UTC 2004


Am Dienstag, den 09.11.2004, 00:00 -0500 schrieb Kevin Old:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've dowloaded the FC3 DVD via the bittorrent.  MD5SUM is perfect. 
> Mediacheck passes.
> 
> I'm trying to install it on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop.  Had
> FC1 runnng perfect on it.
> 
> What happens is when trying to run anaconda it takes about 5 minutes
> to probe for my video driver and monitor/display and then takes
> another 5 minutes for my mouse.  It identifies all of them, but it's
> soooooo slow.  Once in anaconda it's 5 minutes in between config
> screens.  By that I mean that when I press the "Next" button it takes
> 5 minutes to go to the next screen.
> 
> During that time there is no DVD, harddrive or cpu activity.
> 
> I tried "linux ide=nodma" as I saw a post that had it "stall" after
> seeing the "Disabling IRQ #11".  No change.
> 
> Any ideas what I can do so that it runs like normal?

I've had exact the same problem, but the installation finished fine.

Dirk





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