I have been trying to install Fedora Core 4 on 3 different PCs. All PCs have more than one HDD. One with 2 SCSI disks. One with 2 SCSI, 1 IDE. One with 1 SATA and 1 IDE. The only time I succeeded was when I disabled all but one SCSI disk on the SCSI only box. Since then, I have failed, even on a PC with only one IDE drive enabled. The media passes the media test. I don't understand the failure message, it is about 20 lines of a script. The failure happens immediately after going through the config. I have tried so many times. I have limited the number of software packages, removed hardware, text-only or graphical installs. The same PCs have all had difficulty installing SUSE 9.3, but I can do it sometimes. I can install Mandriva 10.2 on all PCs without incident. I'd love to try Fedora, however. Please help...

give motherboard and processors of the PCs

Did you md5sum the downloads?

Also, give CentOS a try. It is a rebuild of RHEL, so it is made for big systems. It might work for you. It is very similar to Fedora Core 3.

The three systems:

1. Dual P3-550, Intel NX440 Server board, onboard SCSI
2. Socket A ASRock VIA 880 Upgrade board, Athlon 2800+, LSI SCSI card
3. P4 i865PE ASUS P800 or something like that, Celeron D 2.4, SATA and IDE

Mandrake 8 to 10.2 works on all systems without incident.

Suse 9.3 works with only one drive enabled.

Fedora didn't work on any! Boo Hoo.

I'll take a look at CentOS. I've never seen it. The Fedora, Suse, and Mandrake disks were all bought from LinuxCentral. I'm confident that they are all good. I did have one successful install with the Fedora disks on the Athlon box with only one HDD plugged in. Successive attempts have failed. I really like the ClearLook on the FC4.

are u doing a full install or a custom installl...............

did the cd pass the media check?

I have tried both full install and custom installs. I have tried text-only and graphic install. The media passed the check. On one machine, (Celeron D, i865PE) I couldn't do a graphic install at all. The screen was unreadable. It has an old GForce2 MX400 card.

try this link .

OK. I have just successfully installed FC4 on the Athlon PC by removing the SCSI card. I tried moving my Athlon box inside, but it can not start the GUI as soon as I plug my LCD monitor in it. Why so many problems?

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OK. I have just successfully installed FC4 on the Athlon PC by removing the SCSI card. I tried moving my Athlon box inside, but it can not start the GUI as soon as I plug my LCD monitor in it. Why so many problems?
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Most likely unsupported hardware. This is not Linux's or Fedora's fault.