Fedora Core 3 or 4

[dsfreak]

Ok. Just spent most of my day, downloading, and attempting to install Fedora Core 4. Lol. Oddly, though, all of my cds were containg "bad media"! No matter how many times I switched ISO burners, or dowloaded several ISO's from diff sites, none of them seemed to work!!! So, now, I am offering free advertisng, or something elses, in which you and I can talk about, if someone can send me a WORKING copy of Fedora Core 4. Or, all of the cds. I would much rather have FC4, but I could take FC3. Thanks so much.

 

[vbchris]

Just curious when you where downloading did you download from the main site or a mirror?

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/

 

[dsfreak]

Both, and neither seemd to work. Do you happen to have the CDS or the DVD?

 

[vbchris]

Nope sorry, I only have the beta Fedora 4 which wouldnt install either lol :\

 

[dsfreak]

OH Ok. I will wait for some one to hook me up.

 

[Mikek]

Make sure you check the md5 hash on the iso's before burning. The downloads might have got corrupted

 

[dsfreak]

Hmm.... tried that, but mdsummer always said out of memory. Then I increased the paging file, and it always froze. Does anybody know A VERY realiable host to download those files from, meaning that the files aren't corrupt?

 

[Richard]

One method od downloading I find works 100% (for me) is to use flashget or some other download manager in fact I can't download any iso's with out one. I find if you don't use a download manager it almost always becomes corrupted.

 

[dsfreak]

I am using Star Downloader. THats what I have been using for quite a while. What is flahget's website?

 

[Nathan]

Another problem could be is you didn't format the partitions correctly. FAT file type since Linux can't write to NTFS (MS won't let anybody have the code). Also make sure you have two partions, a swap and / partition.

 

[dsfreak]

Well, windows I have is on FAT32 file sys. Also, the tests that come with the Fedora Core Cd tell me that the cd is bad, so, now, I will download #1 again, burn it to an RW, and if it works, then I will put it on an r, and do the same thing for 2,3, and 4. Unless, of course, some is able to send me a cd/DVD. I mean, the people that currently use linux MUST still have the cds, and all I am asking for is a copy/copies. THx in advance, and thx for all the help I got.

 

[XUnreal]

Another problem could be is you didn't format the partitions correctly. FAT file type since Linux can't write to NTFS (MS won't let anybody have the code). Also make sure you have two partions, a swap and / partition.

WinFS Soon In Longhorn gonna get it as soon as it comes out.

 

[komodolinux]

dunno which part of the world you guys are in.

but magazines such as apc have it. apc is an australian magazine.