I am trying to install Fedora on an older laptop (Toshiba Satellite 2805-S301). While installing I receive the following message:

Error installing apsell-en-0.51-12. This can indicate media failure, lack of disk space, and/or hardware problems. This is a fatal error and your install will be aborted. Please verify your media and try your install again. Press the OK button to reboot your system.

At the time of the message the computer was installing aspell-en-0.51-12.i386 (4 MB) English dictionaries for Aspell.

I was installing over all other partitions.
The hard drive is 10 Gigs, so I don't think it is a diskspace problem.
I have tried to install a few times and this same error keeps on coming up.

So where do I go from here?

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Check the media means, among other things, the checksums.

It could be a bad ISO or sometimes the Fedora installer gets confused and dies.

If the install keeps dying at aspell. If you can deselect the package before the install and then install it after. That might be an option.

Oh, another possibility: Your drive is 10Gb, but what is the size of your /boot partition, your / partition and (if you have one) your /home partition? Also, how much space is allocated to your swap partition.

I.e.: You may have lots of room on the hard drive, but not enough space in the partition being used for the install.

something wrong with you cd-rom?