Description of problem: On exactly one of the three i386 machines in my house, anaconda fails while preparing for installation. Using a known-good set of FC5 intallation media, I was able to install on a ThinkPad X60 laptop and a generic whitebox PC. On the *other* generic whitebox PC, a popup during preparation for installation (just after the bootloader update question) said this: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. failure: repodata/repomd from anaconda: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): N/A How reproducible: May require ny hardware :-)
Alas, the "linux ide=nodma" workaround does *not* fix this.
Nor is this a duplicate of bug 106685. I burned the disks with this command: cdrecord -v speed=10 driveropts=burnfree dev=/dev/cdwriter -padsize=800 -dao -eject $* So adding lots of [adding does not prevent it.
This is probably just your drive not liking the media. Different drives have different tolerances for burned media and this will often be tickled at install time just due to how much of the CD that gets read.