Is there some trick to booting F16 minimal install CD?

[n2xssvv.g02gfr12930]

On 10/03/12 18:27, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
> On 08/03/12 00:07, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>> I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive.
>> It doesn't work.
>>
>> The boot menu asks me to install or troubleshoot.
>> Hitting enter for install results in lots of text
>> scrolling off the page followed by catatonia.
>> The first time, the last line was incomplete.
>> The next time I used
>> linux ks=http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/anaconda-ks.cfg
>> The last line before catatonia included something like "end of dump".
>>
>> The CD is not bad.
>> It's an exact copy of the iso from which it was made.
>> I read it back and did a diff to make sure.
>> The iso's sha256sum is
>> a4a7cc83163a2cecf1420c64d48123d0887e165aa17a72b8920f8d70bf003a65 .
>>
>> How do I debug this?
>>
> 
> I can  sympathise, having had little luck trying to install Fedora 16
> myself. The last successful attempt, well to some degree, was with a
> network install CD and doing a text install, (change the anaconda
> options by adding text to the end). Unfortunately this results in a
> minimal install, so you will have to use yum to install everything else.
> A tedious task at best.

As an update I have discovered that the Nouveau driver for nVidia cards
has problems in Fedora 16. Hence on the network install CD or a spin CD
you need to use the troubleshooting install/run which then uses the vesa
driver instead.