Problems Installing Linspire 5

[ConfusedFusion]

Hi all

I am having problems installing Linspire 5. I burnt the downloaded ISO, I tried booting the pc with the Linspire 5 CD. All goes well till the menu (to choose Update, Advanced or Live Option).

If I select any of the three options, the whole thing crashes with a ?Fatel: CD Search Failed? error. Check out the screen shots, the best I could before the battery on my digi-cam ran out (grrr, one of those days I guess).

http://img148.echo.cx/img148/9282/dsci00380wp.jpg

http://img148.echo.cx/img148/9628/dsci00419lv.jpg

Anyways, anyone as any idea what the problem could be? My pc is a AMD Athlon 64 with 1gb of RAM, CD drive is Sony dual layer dvd drv.

[Mr. Dick C. Normous]

Try burning the iso slower or on a different brand of blank. Did you check MD5 hash?

[Makeshift Hammer]

Yup....looks like you're trying to boot from a coaster. Reburn at a slower speed.

[ConfusedFusion]

nope, getting the same problem with a disk burnt at a lower speed.

Edited April 23, 2005 by ConfusedFusion

[Mr. Dick C. Normous]

Have you checked the hash?

[ConfusedFusion]

i finally got around to check the md5 hash vaule, and it is the same as published on Linspire's site. I dont understand at all, what the problem could be. I have tried burning on 3 diff burn speeds.

The next I have to do is to find someother PC to try it. any other ideas?????????

[Mr. Dick C. Normous]

You might try burning on a different brand of disk but I doubt thats it anymore. I don't know why I didn't catch this before but is Linspire 64bit compatible?

[Chad.C]

  Mr. Dick C. Normous said:

You might try burning on a different brand of disk but I doubt thats it anymore. I don't know why I didn't catch this before but is Linspire 64bit compatible?

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It shouldn't really matter as the A64 can still execute 32 bit code remember ?

[thechitowncubs]

  ConfusedFusion said:

Hi all

I am having problems installing Linspire 5. I burnt the downloaded ISO, I tried booting the pc with the Linspire 5 CD. All goes well till the menu (to choose Update, Advanced or Live Option).

If I select any of the three options, the whole thing crashes with a “Fatel: CD Search Failed” error. Check out the screen shots, the best I could before the battery on my digi-cam ran out (grrr, one of those days I guess).

http://img148.echo.cx/img148/9282/dsci00380wp.jpg

http://img148.echo.cx/img148/9628/dsci00419lv.jpg

Anyways, anyone as any idea what the problem could be? My pc is a AMD Athlon 64 with 1gb of RAM, CD drive is Sony dual layer dvd drv.

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If this doesn't work, I always recommend ubuntu!

[ConfusedFusion]

Well, I will try burning on a diff brand of disks today. I have tried booting with a diff cdrom drive, still the same though.

I have also submitted the issue to Linspire Support.

[rezza Veteran]

I don't know if the linspire cd allows you to pass kernel options as it boots up, but if it does, try disabling acpi (normally "noacpi" I believe) and see if that helps.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Have you tried to boot on another PC? Just curious.

[ConfusedFusion]

I will try with "noacpi". No, I haven't tried the disks on another PC, but will be doing just that tomorrow. I have burnt 6 disks till now, diff brands, diff burn speeds, all the same result.

So now I am positive that it is not the CD or the ISO, it has to be the hardware. I just now got an email from the Linspire Support team:

" Please try with another CD drive if possible.

You can also try installing Linspire by attaching the harddisk in another system and put it back to the system and reboot."

Best Regards,

Linspire.com Customer Care Team "

Never knew I had to do a song and a dance to get this OS installed, but wont give up that easily.

[Lasker]

well I had experience with linspire already and let me tell you the graphical user is horrible, in order u to download updates u have to pay a fee a year and u have to use only KDE, does not support gnome, so I really recommend u to download another distro easy for the beginner, like SUSE, MANDRIVA, or UBUNTU.

good luck!