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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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