forced to do text-based F11 install

[Bill Davidsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 19:04 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
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>> On 07/03/2009 01:56 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>>> OK, let me admit it I was having the same problem with the F11 DVD. I
>>> cleaned the DVD with alcohol and it worked fine. This is especially
>>> important if you got the DVD from Cheap-bytes. It can't hurt. Try to
>>> clean the DVD.
>> Are you saying that you had the "creating filesystem on ..." window
>> showing the progress bar going back and forth, forever?  And that it was
>> able to progress past that only after cleaning the DVD?  Because I'm
>> quite sure that in our case, the problem had nothing to do with a bad
>> DVD.  We checked it originally after burning it almost a month ago, and
>> again with mediacheck just before attempting install for the first time
>> 2 days ago.
>>
> All II am saying I had a DVD thqaqt passed the media check but when I tried to use it 
> to install I got all sorts of errors and the install crashed. Cleaning the DVD fixed the problem.
> 
> Clean your DVD and it will it either help or it won't. That will decide if this is the problem.
> 
This is one of those possible causes which is very unlikely but easy to test. 
I'm with you, it can't hurt to try it.

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