Re: Fedora 11 install issue

Tuesday, 4 August 2009

I had a similar experience on a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop with 512M
memory.  It's a 32 bit machine of course, unlike yours.  I could install
FC 10, but when I tried FC11, it died about where your install does.  I
also tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu live 9.04 cds. None of the current
distributions worked on that laptop. 

While my solution is certainly not for everyone, I considered the
Pentium 4 in the laptop, updated the installed FC10, sold the laptop,
and bought a new Inspiron 15n (1545).  I haven't tried putting FC11 on
the new laptop yet, but I bet it works just fine. (and it's not a
Pentium 4 anymore)  ;)

Cheers,
Gar

Kevin Kempter wrote:
...
 Hi all;

 I downloaded the fedora 11 x86_64 DVD iso image and burned it to a DVD with 
 k3b.

 Now when I start the laptop with the DVD in the drive , the dvd spins up, and 
 I see this on the screen:

 ISOLINUX 3.75 2009-04-16 ETCD Copyright (c) 1994-2000 H. Peter Anvin et al

 Then it just hangs... 

 Thoughts?

 Thanks in advance

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