Fedora conquered

I finally ended up installing Fedora using the text based installer and it worked. It's also possible that the problem with the computer in the optics lab was due to errors in the install discs I was using since it said there were errors, but I find that unlikely since the second set of discs reported errors as well. I think that more likely the media tester and the graphical anaconda installer both have some serious issues.

In retrospect, I should have just used Ubuntu. I only chose Fedora because that's what the the people in the lab were accustomed to.