fedora core 3 installation problems

[cain]

i have been trying to install fedora core 3 on my ibm t22, it meets all the requirements for fc3. here is the problem, when the computer first boots up with the installation cd 1 inside, it asks me to choose how to install it. i just hit enter and use the graphical console, sometimes it just hangs up right there and stops moving. the computer didnt crash, it's almost as if the cd-rom isnt reading the cd. and then again sometimes i get way into the installation, but hangs up again right after the step where they ask you to enter your root password. i get a bunch of error messages then, which i do not understand. i cannot post those messages because well, i no longer can get even close to that step. any suggestions?

the dvd drive might be the problem, but it was fine when i tried installing windows and an older version of knoppix

 

[n0cmonkey]

Double check the md5 of the iso to make sure it was a good download.

 

[cain]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Double check the md5 of the iso to make sure it was a good download.

how do i do that?

 

[drag]

Sounds like a bad cdrom, definately.

If you go to the place were you downloaded the ISO files they usually have a file called md5sums or something similar. It's a small text file containing the md5sum results of cdrom images.

md5sum will run a algorythm on a file and you use it to make sure things aren't corrupt. Any bit that changes will completely change the results of the md5sum result.

There is a command called md5sum, so you go:
md5sum downloaded.file
if that is correct then you downloaded the file correctly.
md5sum /dev/cdrom
then that will check the cdrom and it should be the same.

You can't do /dfev/cdrom thingy in Windows, obviously. But there is a md5sum.exe for windows so that you can check downloads