Fedora Core Help

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 08:35 -0700, Rhune Lord wrote:
> Fedora 7 live CD fails to boot from the disk and from loading it to
> RAM ( Laptop Specs and failed distro list are below ).  I tried
> dowloading the torrent from fedoraproject.org for "7" and the live
> failed.  I then downloaded the DVD version and I am going this morning
> to buy some blank DVD-R.  I will let you all know if it works. 
> 
> Specs:
> Dell Inspiron 1520
> 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo
> 256MB NVidia 8600M Video Card
> 160GB Hard Drive (100GB to Vista, 45GB to ext3, and 2GB for swap -
> actual total size 149GB)
> Broadcom NIC
> Dell 1390 Wireless 
> DVD Burner
> 
> Well the list is long but the following distro's failed:
> Ubuntu
> Kbuntu
> Sabayon
> Dreamlinux
> CentOS 5
> and the following text installer also failed:
> Slackware.
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I think you would have better success with x86_64

If you want to stay with i386, try typing this at the first boot
prompt...

linux pci=nomsi all-generic-ide

and press enter...it will probably work.

see...
http://web.tiscali.it/belial/Dell_1501_installation_guide.html

Craig