On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 07:47 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 19:20, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> > On Monday 02 May 2005 14:32, Andy Guerriero wrote:
> > > I have tried:
> > > Fedora Core 3 - failed on disc 2
> > > Slackware 10.1 - failed on disc 1
> >
> > Over the past 3 weeks, I've encouraged 3 people to install Fedora 3 on
> > their systems. Every one of them had a failure on disc2, as well as myself.
> > However, when they (and myself) transitioned to the DVD image, they had no
> > problems. Perhaps it's not an issue with your cd drive. Just an FYI.
>
> I read somewhere that when you test the disk, you are supposed to boot the
> kernel with the 'nodma' option.
>
> Anyone else hear this? Is it true?
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I believe what you are referring to is 'linux = nodma' option passed at
boot time.
a very good info page on Fedora...
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
also - if often pays to read the release notes...
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/
Craig
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