FC3 DVD slow between probing, screens, etc

Giulio Sorrentino numerone.fedora at wooow.it
Tue Nov 16 21:09:39 UTC 2004


Kevin Old wrote:

>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?
>
>Thanks,
>Kevin
>  
>
It could be a bad burned dvd or a bad support.
The data is not corrupted but the drive can read it only at low velocities.
Try burn again with another cd vendor.




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