f10 - the fedora disc was not found in any of your cdrom drives.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 December 2008, g wrote:
>greetings,
>
>i was looking forward to having fun with f10, but hoped i would get
>a bit further than this. i guess with no one else posting this problem,
>it was up to me. or else i missed it due to different wording.
>
>
>f10 - installation fails after selection for 'install from' with cd/dvd
>selected.
>
>error message is;
>
>"the fedora disc was not found in any
>of your cdrom drives. please insert
>the fedora disc and press ok to retry."
>
>
>searching via google linux shows 3 hits related to dvd too old to be
>recognized, but drive is only 3 years old and f9 installed from it.
>
>fedora project wiki shows 'no page by title'. would be nice if it would
>search by content.
>
>
>with all that i have seen on this lists and problems with f10, a search
>thru past 6 weeks of post, nothing found.
>
>
>suggestions? pointers?

I had similar problems, burnt 2 copies of the dvd even.  Finally changed the 
drive, bingo!  Worked well then.
>
>tia.
>
>
>peace out.
>
>tc,hago.
>
>g
>.
>
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