I have downloaded the Fedora 8 DVD .iso 3 times now via bittorrent. After I burn the image to the disc, verify and all, I try to install. However on all of them something was apparently wrong with the disc, it would stop installing at some point, just after loading the anaconda installer. Neither the text or graphic installer works, I've burned the last 2 at lower speeds, and even did the media check from the cd and it said the disc was fine. I don't know what to do but this is wasting many of my DVD's. Thanks for any help.

Are there any diagnostic messages? Pressing Esc key reveals these messages in many cases. You can also try using the Live CD first. (after download and burn, ofcourse).

Since my last post I tried using UNetBootin, as to avoid error with any cd, and downloaded another dvd image. Now after it tries to load anaconda I get a installer exited abnormally msg. With UNetBootin it does that with the last 2 I downloaded, and also if I use the http way and it loads the stage2.img from the fedora site, but with that one it goes to a graphical install and when I try to click next it freezes.

I would suggest trying a different distro. Ubuntu, perhaps?

I personally prefer trying a new distro from CD rather than DVD. It's a BIOS thing with my machine.

Anyway, are you burning to the right media? I also wasted a bunch of DVDs because I was using +R instead of -R. The same thing applied to CDs.

Try out -R and, if that doesn't work, change distros. DO try Ubuntu or OpenSuse or Mandriva.

Try anything that'll definitely let you boot and install from CD/DVD media.

If you're a real newbie and you've taken the slackware path all I can say is that you're taking a top-down approach...with all the dangers that implies.