First time install of fedora

[liam662]

Hi,

This is the first time I hvae ver come into contact with linux, a friend recommended I try fedora 10. So I did I have downloaded it and got it onto a disk and I am now trying to install it on my XP desktop, However when things were going great the installation froze after a pressing a few key I found this message.

Doing setuproot
loading policy
SELinux: could not load policy file /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.23: bad address
Unable to load SELinux policy (bad address). Halting now.

If anyone could shed some light on this for me please do and please keep it simple I have never used linux before.

[Rubberman]

When you were answering questions for installation, did you affirm to install SELinux? SELinux is Security Enhanced Linux which while good if you have really stringint security requirements, is not so good for the average joe user workstation. Re-install and don't tell it to add the enhanced security features.

[b2bwild]

I guess you are installing from DVD. because Live Install is quite simple.
on what stage of installation you where?
What method of installation you were doing?

Just verify the media once before you install.

Btw, if you are complete beginer try something like Linux Mint/Ubuntu/Mandriva/Dreamlinux/gOS, for fedora you need to know some CLI and Linux basics.

[liam662]

Thanks
But it does not give the choice to chnage any if the setup, I downloaded the live CD and burned it to disk. When I boot from the disk it gives me the Fedora screen and says automatic boot in (then counts down) then it just goes to a black screen with a prgress bar at the bottom that fill up and right at the end it freezes, then by pressing escape I get the message that I mentioned before.

[b2bwild]

Its not a install Process, its just booting the live image.
Whats your hardware specs?

[liam662]

Its an old machine since I am not going to try this on my good machine:

CPU: intel celeron 2.97Ghz
Ram: 1GB DDR
HDD: 80GB about 30GB free space
O/S: currently XP but hoping for fedora

[b2bwild]

Well, all that you got is enough for a live boot.
Have you verified the live media? data errors can cause troubles.

As you are a beginner, I wont suggest you to keep up with fedora, however many people don't agree on this.
But if you want to use fedora, its good to use complete DVD release instead of live media. fedora is a distro where you may need to use CLI more than some popular desktop distributions like Mint, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Suse, once you get familier with enviroment you can use fedora.