I am trying to install linux on a Dell Dimension 4400. I have tried several different distributions Fedora Core 1, Core 2, Core 3, Core 5, Ubuntu, SUSE 9.0, Debian and Linspire. Each time I get an error and all are similar but the numbers are different. The following is the one I got from a Fedora distribution:

md:...autorun DONE
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
crc error
EXT2-fs:unable to read superblock
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=md1 iso_blknum=16, block=32
kernelpanic-not syncing: VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,1)
[<c011978e>] panick+0x3e/0x16c

Can anyone tell me what is going on here. It seems to me that linux should be able to run on the Dell. Incidentally, this failure happened after I re-formatted the drive. This is a new installation.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

Hi,

If you downloaded your ISO then you should check the md5sum for the iso with the md5 file from the same site of the iso.