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I was trying to install Fedora Core 4 on my computer last night and after I pressed enter to install from graphical mode I got an error. You can see the error the image. I’m currently trying to hunt down an answer to this problem. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

Update (7/14/2005):

It looks like there is a work around for this problem. After the error pops up, do the following:

1. Type ‘mediacheck’ at the prompt (without the ‘ ‘).
2. The above will throw an error and then type ‘linux mediacheck’.

That should get you running again supposedly. I will check it out when I get home.

Update (7/5/2005):

So I tried the above mentioned fix and it didn’t seem to work for me. I later found another fix for those few individuals who the previous fix doesn’t work for. You can get the installer to work if you boot off of the book CD instead of the regular install CDs. Once I used the boot CD the install worked beautifully.

Now I just need to figure out how to get my network card drivers installed. The instructions that came with the driver doesn’t work.

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Well, I just read David Sifry’s recent post on statistics taken from Technorati. The post talks about the booming world of blogs. Go check out has post and see what I am talking about.

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Yesterday I installed the MT-Blacklist plugin in order to turn on trackback pings again. I checked the logs for MT-Blacklist when I got in this morning and in less than 24 hours it has already had to block over 200 spam trackbacks. Although some still have got past MT-Blacklist, it has still removed a major burden from my blog.

I had installed MT-Blacklist before I moved servers but it was hardly blocking anything so I never installed it on my new server. Yesterday I figured I would check to see if the plugin had improved. Well, it has! The newest version of the plugin actually exceeded my expectations.

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