Alright, so I've been trying to install Fedora 11 on a brand new VD Caviar Green 500GB drive I got yesterday from Best Buy. I tried to do it from the LiveCD and it kept failing to write to the HD. "Bad media" something. I thought my HD might be eff'd. I was kinda pissed.

So I tried the full DVD install, and it goes normal, media check passed, and it goes about the normal installation until it gets to the actual instal. You know, with the progress bar and all. At which point it says:

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python: rpmte.c:704: prmteColorDS: Assertion 'ix < Count' failed.
install exited abnormally [1/1]
disabling swap... ((etc etc))
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sending kill signals...done
you may safely reboot your system

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I see no errors on TTY2-4. TTY5 says "failed to destroy server context", if that's relavent. I dunno.

So, what, do I have a bad HDD or am I doing something wrong?

tl;dr: Fedora 11 halp!