Installing FC 3

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I'm not sure what to tell you there. I'm no pro on this either, but I do 
know the basics. I'd recommend the network install as well, as it seems that 
there is a problem with your CD drive. But again, I'm not sure, this is 
quite puzzling.

On 5/3/05, Lodolce at colorado.edu <Lodolce at colorado.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> I tried burning the images at a low speed, no luck. With the most recent 
> CD's it
> won't even load the installer, rather after it states "Decompressing 
> Linux..." I
> get "crc error -- system halted". With another set of CDs once the 
> installer
> loads and I go to start the install and I immediately get "error reading
> header...cpio:read failed" then it exits the installer.
> 
> I have yet to try a network install. I only have a windows network around, 
> can I
> do this through windows? Actually, I do have a machine running Redhat 9.0though
> I do not profess to be fluent with linux. Any suggestions on where I might 
> find
> a tutorial for a linux network install?
> 
> I have Windows XP currently on one partition, and another data partition
> formated as NTFS. I am trying to setup a dual boot with FC 3 on the 
> remainder
> of the HD (since good old microsoft isn't set up yet for 64bit 
> processors).
> I've tried burning the install disks using various machines with the same
> result.
> 
> Thanks
> Gabe
> 
> Quoting bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net>:
> 
> > gabe.
> >
> > is your system separated, or part of a network. a couple of suggestions.
> >
> > 1) burn the iso images at the slowest possible speed...
> > 2) do a network installation, where you copy the isos to a location on 
> the
> > HD, or on another server within your network...
> >
> > give me more information about your setup, and there might be other 
> possible
> > solutions
> >
> > -bruce
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Lodolce at colorado.edu
> > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:42 PM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Installing FC 3
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to install FC 3 (64 bit) and I keep having problems 
> with
> > the
> > install disks. I verified the checksums once I downloaded the iso 
> images,
> > and
> > burned the iso images using nero. I can get the installer to boot fine, 
> but
> > when I test the disks with the installer they always fail. If I try to
> > continue
> > with the installation it imediately crashes. I have done this 
> successfully
> > before to install Redhat 9.0, I think in the same way. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gabe
> >
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