The original issue described below was due to a bad DVD media. When I installed from a USB it installed without a hitch.
Thanks On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Yusuf Matcheswala <ymatchesw...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am trying to install Fedora-16-i686-Live-Electronics-Lab.iso on my Dell > Inspiron B130. System specs are: > Intel Pentium M processor @ 1.7GHz > 32bit architecture > RAM ~1MB > HDD ~40GB > > I have a DVD Live Image of the above mentioned file which I downloaded > from this link: > http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/#downloads > and I chose the Direct Download-32bit PC edition option. > > I then booted from the DVD player on which I had copied the above ISO > image. > > Once the Fedora screen came up the very first message I got was as follows: > [image: Click image for larger version Name: gnomemsgcrop.png Views: 16 > Size: 36,7 KB ID: > 22347]<http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22347&d=1324362370> > > > I clicked "Close" on this window and it took me to what seemed like the > Fedora worspace. I then clicked on Applications->System Tools->Install To > hardrive > It asked me various questions and I selected default on all (including the > question about partitions, for this I selected the second option). So it > started doing what looked like an instllation to disk, it formatted the > drive etc. and then came to this mesage: > [image: Click image for larger version Name: unrecoverableErrCrop.png > Views: 11 Size: 76,9 KB ID: > 22348]<http://forums.fedoraforum.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22348&d=1324362473> > > > Now, I have no idea what this is. Previous to Fedora, I had installed > Ubuntu LINUX on the same system and that installed like a song. I started > all over again and this time entered troubleshoot mode. I ran the memory > test and it ran OK with no errors. The I ran the media test and it said > something to the effect that media should not be used to install. What can > the problem be.......Ubuntu did not have an issue with the media and > previous to that I had Windows XP and that was running just fine. What > issue is FEL installation having? There is not enough information for me, a > novice with these LINUX systems to debug the problem. Can some LINUX guru > shed more light on this? I'd be greatly obliged. > > Thanks > > Yusuf > > -- > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ymatches > @ymatcheswala > > > -- www.matronixsystems.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/ymatches @ymatcheswala
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