From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14-etin i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 Description of problem: Installation reboots or freeses DELL Inspiron 5000e The text/nofb/expert/lowres and combinations were tried. When a boot diskette is used, the machine halts with CRC error reported. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot Inspiron 5000e from CD-ROM = crash/freeze 2.Boot Inspiron 5000e from diskette = crash with CRC error 3. Actual Results: Nothing. The machine freezes or reboots. Expected Results: Installation should proceed. Additional info:
Try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'. Does this help?
"linux ide=nodma" does not help!
Have you run any other versions of Linux on this machine? Also, have you tried these cdroms in different machines?
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