hi,
I tried to install Fedora 8 on AMD 64 bit ASUS mother board, but unable to install. A window appeared, asked for the language and Keyboard type, i gave the two inputs. After that it asked for the media " which media contains the installation package"
1.DVD/CD ROM
2.Harddisk
3.FTP
4.HTTP
i gave answer 1 and its says no media found and asked to install the drivers and to select the from the list of the drivers.
I don't know what is problem and what drivers i need to install.
so please help me in resolving this issue.


thanks in advance
Uma

What kind of optical drive? eg SATA or PATA?

when it says "select from list of drivers" is there some link to tell you what drivers? Can you see the list?

Do you have two optical drives in your tower? Like a DVDRW in one bay, and a CDROM in the other? In other words do you have 2 cdroms in your desktop? If so, I've heard of this issue. You're going to have to unplug the secondary (secondary meaning pick whatever you don't want to use and unplug it) drive and retry the installation. should work like a charm.

I am having a similar issue. I recently installed fedora 8 on a machine that was previously running fedora core 6. I installed it on a different partition so that now I can boot into both fedora 8 and fc6.

All hardware has been working well under fc6. I booted from my internal DVD writer. It is recognized as "hdc: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S182M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive" under fc6, although I know it as a Samsung SH-S182M.

The fedora 8 installer loaded from this drive, but when I selected the CD/DVD media option for install it told me that it could not find the drive. No drivers in the driver list seemed to fit. I worked around this problem by hooking up an external USB DVD drive, and installing from that.

Now that I have the system installed, and have updated the system (i.e., "yum -y update"), it still does not recognize the Samsung drive. I cannot find any error messages, and there is no mention of it in /var/log/dmesg.

This is the kernel I am using: kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8

The interface is: E-IDE / ATAPI.
The motherboard is: Intel D865PERL mainboard
which reports this IDE controller: 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)
This is the only optical drive in the system (I removed the external USB drive).

I don't think it is a hardware problem, since it worked with no configuration in fc6, and the BIOS sees it with no problems.

Any ideas?

-Matthew

Is the drive a slave on the same IDE interface as your hard disc, or on a different IDE interface.
If it is the former, then you might try connecting it to your secondary IDE interface and setting it as the master, or if it is the latter, check that you have it set as master.
I can't be sure that any of this will help, but I had troubles coming from FC6 to F8 and have a CDROM and an DVD drive, and had to try a number of changes with cabling etc, before all worked OK.
Now if I need to use the F8 distro DVD as rescue disk, I have to disconnect the CD-ROM drive (slave on secondary IDE interface) before I can boot off the DVD. F8 seems to have some trouble with DVD and CDROM drives.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,