hello there,

I have a Hitachi 80GB HDD & 512 MB RAM on a Compaq notebook.

made one partition of 5GB and installed WIN XP on that.

the rest, made a logical drive(from windows) of 10 GB and then rebooted from Fedora Core 4 Linux Disk.

here, I use disk druid and remove the 10GB partition first, add a swap of 512 MB, and rest 9.5GB to '/'.

and to my surprise, Linux installation does not even start!. It comes to the last screen of installation process where it says "this is your last chance to do ctrl+alt+del to revert the process and blah blah blah"....

after this, no matter how much time i wait, it never proceeds further to actual installation of Linux.

Any pointers are highly appreciated and thanks in advance.

regards
MKV

In the 1st step of the installation, did you get your CDs verified? I had this problem with FC4 downloads, even though MD5 sumcheck (or whateverthey use) shows that the downloaded iso images are ok, in reallity they are not..(Correct me everyone if I am wrong, please) ..

What is your partition layout?
Did you download the correct images? (according to your processor)..

Hi,
That was a great reply ! actually the MD5 verification succeeds and the CD verification fails for me too !.

My processor is Intel Centrino. and I downloaded i386 arch ISO images.

with a centrino, i386 is correct or i shall use x86 or anything else?

please let me know.
regards
MKV

You have the correct images...
How do you partition? Auto or MAnual?
I hate to say this, but either try to find a way to log your installation output somewhere, or just download something like ubuntu (1cd) to just test a linux installation to make sure there is nothing wrong with your arch(careful, you might want to stick with it).....