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TheJockNerd   12-01-2007 at 09:59:17 PM

I just downloaded and burned a DVD of Fedora 8. When I try to install fedora it hangs for 10 minutes at loading "ata_piix driver" after the 10 minutes it continuse and asks where the install media is (CD, hard disk, NFS, HTTP, FTP) when I select CD it says that no device of selected type found. It then asks for either a driver disk or to select a driver from list. None of the drivers on that list seem to be the right one for me. I'm trying to install from an Asus Sata DVD drive to a 80GB WD IDE drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

System specs:
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160
Abit IP35
2GB Adata DDR2-800
ATI Radeon X1950GT
500GB Samsung Sata
80GB WD IDE
ASUS 18X SATA DVD Burner with LightScribe



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surrealdeal   12-02-2007 at 02:38:26 AM
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Hi! Sounds like fedora automatically tried to install from the wrong device. (even though you could initially boot from it, i know, it's dumb.) You are ... (installing from a menu?) there should be something that says "source directory" and then somewhere down the line "install directory". Goto "select source directory" and it should either be in /media/dvd /media/dvd0 /media/dvd1 ...etc, OR in /dev/hda /dev/hdb /hdc... etc. It sometimes calls cdrom drives hard disks...
Does this help?

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