Hey,

I have been posting around the forum in hope of finding some one to help. I have in the last few weeks got my hands on a new laptop and I mean new. it is an upgrade from my old laptop that while to put it easy, it just kept on fryin out on my. so Toshiba gave me a new one but a butter one ie. same model, but new higher sub-model.

now I had fedora core 3 installed on the old one just great! and I would like to do the same with the new one. but when I try to install will anaconda gose nuts just after I select install type ie. this happends on both GUI and text install. it look to be that it can not handle my ATI mobility radeon 9000. the odd thing is this is the same as I had in the old laptop. now I know this is anaconda not just fedora all together because I was able to find a linux liveCD that someone had made off of core 2 and that runs great. I have also try install anther type of linux and it installed in. it is Mandrake 10.1.

the Mandrake will odse not meet my needs. I can't get a LAMP set up going on it. so I want it off. I am running RedHat 9 via windows xp and virtualPC and I have got the LAMP going on there fine, so I have my bases covered for school work for the next little while.

I was trying to think is there any way to have anther installer do the job or say some way to get a newer version of the anaconda installer to install the Fedora Core 3? I have checked the DVD already and it passed the media check fine, so I know its not that.

please I really want my Fedora back!!

I had a couple of customers laptops give me the same trouble. I just pulled the hard drives and installed FC3 with them hooked to different machines. Then put the drives back into the laptops. Winblows won't allow this of course, but I've never had trouble transplanting a hard drive in Linux

I've not had too many problems during the install. Usually the problem for me comes after the reboot.

Did you do the media check to verify integrity?

If you can't get that far... download an md5sum utility and run it against the ISO's. Then compare that number generated with the one from the place where you performed the download. If the numbers don't match you will need to download, check the md5sum and re-burn.

I have not run the md5sum but I have both used the DVD for an install on the old laptop and I have done the media check and it passed that fine. I did the media check on my old laptop and on my PC. it would be just before the media check screen comes up that the whole thing gose wrong.

I have been thinking about the HD switch to install the linux. I am at college and a lot of us got our laptops at the same time from the same place so I should be able to use someone elses laptop that would just be a deferent sub-mode of my laptop, so the drivers would not be too far off when I put it back.

the question I have is about doing the install. I have mandrake 10.1 and windows xp pro right now. I was just going to get my windows booter back on partition magic the linux away about now if I can put fedora on there I think I just may do that. ok so I am using grub right now to boot. so what would I need to do to get the mandrake off and fedora in its place without harming my windows. this computer is for school and I have to have it for my class' every day of the week, so no down time on the windows!!!

Are you having a black screen problem during installation of fedora core 3? What do you mean by anaconda goes nuts? Anyway, instead of choosing either install or upgrade, type "linux resolution=800x600". That did the trick for me. Instead of seeing a blank screen, I was able to see the gui during installation.