Do you have checked that device: Yamaha CRW2200S EIDE CD-RW?

Julien Pierre wrote in message news:...
> Hi,
>
> I am unable to install Fedora Core 1 on my system.
> I have tried at least 20 times, and each time I get a different failure.
> These failures include :
>
> 1) complete lockup of the Fedora GUI install (unable to move mouse)
> 2) sometimes 1) accompanied with a duo of scroll lock / caps lock
> lights. Googling for this indicates this is kernel panic
> 3) In various parts of the install, the graphical
> installer reverts to text mode, and I get the following :
>
> Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait ...
> Probing for video card : ATI Radeon 8500
> Probing for monitor type : Unknown monitor
> Probing for mouse type : Generic - Wheel Mouse (PS/2)
> Attempting to start native X server
> Waiting for X server to start...log located in /tmp/X.log
> 1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully
> install exited abnormally
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals... done
> disabling swap...
> /tmp/hda6
> unmounting filesystems...
> /mnt/runtime done
> disabling /dev/loop0
> /proc/bus/usb done
> /proc done
> /dev/pts done
> /tmp/ramfs done
> /mnt/source done
> /mnt/sysimage boot done
> /mnt/sysimage/dev/pts done
> /mnt/sysimage/proc done
> /mnt/sysimage done
> you may safely reboot your system
>
> I have never installed Linux before and this is extremely frustrating.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> The hardware is as follows :
>
> Asus A7M-266D dual athlon motherboard (1010 bios)
> two Athlon MP 1500+ CPUs
> 512 MB ECC PC2100 DDR RAM (Corsair, lifetime warranty)
> LSI21040 Ultra160 SCSI 64-bit PCI controller (multi-channel)
> WD 200 GB ATA100 HD (the mobo BIOS does see the full 200GB)
> Seagate 36 GB 15k rpm SCSI HD
> Yamaha CRW2200S EIDE CD-RW
> Pioneer SCSI DVD-ROM
> Microtech dual-slot PCMCIA to SCSI reader
> M-Audio Delta 66 PCI soundcard
> 3Com 905 PCI NIC
> Asus PCI-USB2 USB 2.0 EHCI PCI card
> ATI Radeon 8500 AGP video
> Apple Cinema Display 22" with DVI-to-ADC adapter
> AZERTY PS2 keyboard
> Kensington Expert Mouse Pro PS2 trackball
> Roland SMPU64 MIDI interface
> 1.44 MB floppy drive
>
> I also have two external SCSI devices; an HP Scanjet 4c on the UW SCSI
> bus, and an HP Surestore DAT40e on the LVD bus.
>
> The network connection is on a 100 Mbps home LAN, with a Sonicwall
> router/firewall to my DSL provider. The machine has a dedicated static,
> public IP.
>
> The above machine is not a new system; I have been using it for years
> primarily with OS/2, as a development system and on occasion Windows for
> some audio/video stuff too. At this point, I would like to add Linux to
> it. There is plenty of available unpartitioned space. So far all my
> efforts have failed and this is very frustrating.
>
> Here is what happens when I try to install Fedora Core 1 :
> 1) put CD 1 in the Yamaha CRW
> 2) select English language
> 3) French keyboard
> 4) Wheel Mouse (PS2). None of the choices offered seem to match my
> Kensington trackball, unfortunately.
> 5) Monitor. The install detects it as "Unpprobed Monitor". I believe
> this is one of the main issues. The monitor is connected via DVI, and
> its native resolution is 1600x1024. There is nothing in any of the
> offered monitors that has that resolution. So I choose "LCD panel
> 1280x1024" under "Generic LCD display" . I know the Apple panel can
> support 1280x1024 since I run that resolution in OS/2.
> 6) I select "workstation". I need the development tools.
> 7) automatically partition
> 8) I select "keep all partitions and use existing free space"
> check the WD hard drive (it is the bootable device in the system),
> uncheck the Seagate SCSI HD, check "review partitions",
> 9) I get : "warning : boot partition /boot may not meet booting
> constraints for your architecture. Creation of a boot disk is highly
> encouraged". At this point the partition table looks like this :
>
>
> Device Mount Type Size
>
> /dev/hda [WDC WD2000 JB-00DUA0)
> /dev/hda1 OS/2 boot manager 8
> /dev/hda2 ntfs 131054
> /dev/hda3 /boot ext3 102
> /dev/hda4 Extended 59616
> /dev/hda5 / ext3 58596
> /dev/hda6 swap 1020
>
> /dev/sda (SEAGATE ST336752LC)
> Free Free space 8566
> /dev/sda1 Extended 26435
> /dev/sda5 NTFS/HPFS 6001
> /dev/sda6 vfat 2000
> /dev/sda7 Foreign 18434
>
>
>
>
> 10) I enter the IP/netmask/DNS/hostname for the 3 Com NIC
> 11) No firewall , since I have a hardware firewall/router
> 12) select English
> 13) Pacific time zone
> 14) select root pw
> 15) install default software packages
> 16) If it gets this far, it will hang ...
>
> [update]
>
> I have now pulled a ton of hardware out of the system to try to isolate
> where things lie.
>
> I have kept it down to :
> - The A7M-266D motherboard with both Atlon MP CPUs
> - the 512 MB RAM
> - the WD 200 GB hard drive
> - the Yamaha IDE CDRW
> - the 3 Com NIC
> - the PS/2 keyboard and mouse
> - the 1.44 MB floppy drive
> - the Apple monitor
>
> I still am unable to install.
> I have also tried dedicating the WD 200 GB hard drive to linux; trying
> both filling the entire disk or manually partitioning below the 128 GB
> threshold (that I don't think my system is really subject to anyway ...).
>
> Nothing worked so far - every single Fedora install has failed with the
> same symptoms as describe above.
>
> And yes I did check the media, and the Fedora ISOs md5sum, and they
> pass. I'm really lost as to what's wrong. It may point to a hardware
> problem, but the hardware works fine with other OSes. And OS/2 isn't
> particularly easy to get working with modern hardware; but it runs fine
> on this dual Athlon.
>
> Any help is appreciated to try get Linux on this machine.
>
> Thanks.