Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system
> So that's okay... Have you checked the motherboard documentation -
> there are a few m-board BIOS controlled things that when enabled
> prevent writing to the boot sector of the hard drive (a virus
> protection thing).
no, i didn't do that.
>
> Also, check your CD/DVD drive, since the I/O Error message could be
> indicating that your CD/DVD drive isn't working. I know I have a lot
> of old drives that don't work. Frys Electronics was having major
> problems with drives made by "Emperex." It really very well could be
> a problem with your hardware, though during the install process it is
> *very* difficult to diagnose whether it's software or hardware
> difficulties, since both are very often at fault.
>
>
well, it's a brand new box with RH x86_64 Fedora 3 on it...
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