FC4 install stops with "Transfer install image to hard drive" error

From: Tim Oltrogge (tr-oltrogge_at_att.net)
Date: 09/19/05 

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:06:13 GMT

I've been a Linux user for ten years. My previous release was RedHat 7.0
installed on both Toshiba 315CDS and Toshiba 2515CDS laptops. I am having
trouble installing FedoraCore4 on the 2515CDS machine. I haven't tried it
anywhere else, either. I bought a copy of the "Linux Format" magazine with a
DVD with both FC4 and Debian3.1 plastered on the front. Using my son's newer
laptop I read the DVD and wrote the four CDs necessary to install FC4 on my
machine which only has a CDROM reader. Setting the BIOS to boot from CDROM
is no problem, and the RedHat anaconda install program comes up. But here is
where the problems begin. At first I was getting spurious errors way before
the "Transfer install image to hard drive" point. But now, by entering the
kernel parameters mem=nopentium ide=nodma text nofb it seems that I can at
least *reliably* get the install to always fail at the "Transfer install
image to hard drive" location. It seems that this "Transfer install
image..." logic is the first time that heavy CDROM *and* disk I/O are going
on. Sometimes it fails at 1% loaded, sometimes at 30%. I know my machine is
old, only has 96MB memory, only 12GB hard drive (which I'm allowing Linux to
have 5GB, Windows98 has the rest), only 225MHz Pentium-II (or is it III, I
don't know) processor. But there's got to be something simple here stopping
me. I saw a post somewhere that someone had to use ide1=0x170,0x376,15 as a
kernel param to force it to use interrupt 15 for his CDROM and leave IRQ14
for the hard drive. Could FC4 be that messed up?

Please, any suggestions?

Tim O

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