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I installed Amahi/f12 on an old amd barton core system and it has worked without a single problem for 3 months, I like Amahi and decided I would build a more user freindly set up. I have purchased a Foxconn 45CS Atom motherboard, with 512g Ram and maxtor 500GB hard drive.
Most of the time I cannot get past the Test media stage, I have tried differemt media and downloads, all failing however when I try them in a dufferent machine they all pass, I have tried the DVD drive and Sata cable in other machines and they all pass the media test but back in the Foxconn and they fail.
I did get past the Test stage with a disk last night only to get the following error as the install start, It was

python:Python/ast.c.952: ast_for_ifexpr: Assertion ' (n1->n_nchildren)==5' failed
install exited abnormally (1/1)
you may safely reboot your system

I tried this a couple of more times and had exactly the same error, the next time I tried I had the Test media fail!

I tried the media in another machine and it passed fine.

Can anyone help? Do you think its a motherboard hardware fault?

hmm hard to say. can you try to install (skip the media check)? The installer is quite forgiving for some data corruption on the DVD, there's a lot of errorchecking going on (part of this is why the install takes so long).

You could try booting from a live distro and checking if that works and then check for hardware errors.

hmm hard to say. can you try to install (skip the media check)? The installer is quite forgiving for some data corruption on the DVD, there's a lot of errorchecking going on (part of this is why the install takes so long).

You could try booting from a live distro and checking if that works and then check for hardware errors.

When I skip the media check I get the same error and safe to reboot message.

I will try booting from a live distro.

hmm hard to say. can you try to install (skip the media check)? The installer is quite forgiving for some data corruption on the DVD, there's a lot of errorchecking going on (part of this is why the install takes so long).

You could try booting from a live distro and checking if that works and then check for hardware errors.

When I skip the media check I get the same error and safe to reboot message.

I will try booting from a live distro.

Tried a Live distro on cd - system hangs oin the Fedora logo.

Tried a live distro on USB stick same problem.
Tried a net install from USB stick message safe to reboot system after downloading img file.

Good news at last - I tried everything over the last couple of weeks. Different hard drives, different ditros, I did get XP to load and work. Anyway to cut a long story short I changed the memory form Dane-Elec to Crucial (which gaurantee compatability with the Foxconn motherboard) and hey presto!

I now have a sillent server using a lot less electric