[TAG] Hangs, crashes and failures with Fedora Core 2's installer

[Bradley Chapman]

Mr. Ashworth,

> In said 2c tip, we should also point that bad CD-ROM's can botch
> installs, sometimes in very peculiar, hard-to-understand ways.  If you
> downloaded your distro, and it's boot includes a media veriication
> step, *do it, at least once*.  It was RH Anaconda that lost me sleep.

Unfortunately for me, this is a non-standard DVD installer provided by
a magazine called Linux
Format. Unfortunately for my ADSL modem, I have a 4.3GB DVD ISO image
stored on my
firewall machine's hard disk. Should I burn a DVD myself and try again?

Brad

P.S: These back-and-forth responses are Gmail's fault :-P