I downloaded the FC2 iso's, burned to CDRWs, did md5sum checks on the CDs, all succesful. I then booted disc 1, and Fedora installation got to
Welcome to Fedora Core
<Tab>/<Alt Tab> between elements | <Space> selects | <F12> next screen

At this point it hung, and it took Ctrl-Alt-Del to make it go further.

Because I have a plug-in IDE drive, and two drives for the slot are different sizes, I did automatic IDE detection to set CMOS, but the hang during install repeated. Plugging in the other drive, changing CMOS, and removing the FC2 install CD worked, but the same failure occurred when I tried to boot with the FC2 install CD inserted.

Could a bad CDRW pass an md5sum test?

I'm experiencing the same problem with the ISOs that I downloaded from RedHat. I posted the following in an earlier thread.

I'm trying to install Linux for the first time on a clean drive. I'm trying to install Fedora Core 2.
I downloaded the ISOs from RedHat and then double click on them from an XP computer to create the CDs.

When I boot to the first disk I hit Enter to go to graphical mode, then select my language (English) and type of keyboard (U.S) and then select where I'm loading it from (CDRom). At that point it sits there for a little bit and then says it can not find the core CD in any of my CD drives. Yet I obviously booted to it.

I've tried redownloading the ISOs, and recreating the images I get the same thing. I'm using the i386 build

It was suggested that I retry burning the CDs at a lower speed. I burnt them at 4x and had th esame problem.
The MD5Sum test checks out okay.

For me, the install does not even get as far as the selection of language. The only thing I can think of is to burn the CDRW again. I'll try that tonight.

I was finally able to get it working. For some reason it did not like the fact that I was burning the CDs on a different drive.
What I did to fix it was to take the drive out of the computer that I burnt the CDs from and put that drive in the computer I was installing Fedora on. Once I did that the installation went without a hitch.

I also burned my CDs on one drive, and booted on another. If that's the problem, it must be a bug in FC2, since you should be able to pass around the CD's.

I downloaded FC2 iso files and burned them on a machine running Mandrake 10.0. Using the same machine (and CD burner - a Plextor CD-R premium - an excellent product) I've tried to at least look at Anaconda. No satisfaction at all.

Machine boots into the install initial window: "Fedora Core 2" and all about [F1] thru [F4]. From there press Enter to proceed and the machine reboots instead of proceeding. I have tried options to bypass hardware scan and to bypass graphics altogether. BTW the memscan from the same CD works just fine.

I did check the MD5SUMs; they're OK. I did a media check on another machine; all four disks are OK. On this other machine the install process gets to select keyboard, mouse etc. before I abort.

For background, the machine is a 2.6P4 on a P4P800 with 1GB RAM. I have (wait for it) WinXPpro and Mandrake 10.0 in a dual boot config.

I'm sticking with Mandrake 10.0 for now. Lucky me to have the choice!

Regards all,
/T

I tried installing FC2 on another machine with the same CDs, and it worked. The problem appears to be a hardware compatibility regression from FC1 to FC2. I'll file a bug report.