Tried Fedora Core 3 the other night had a problem on the install with it hanging on the hardware check. Installed with noprobe and made the install, didn't have the cdrom working either.Fstab looked right,tried the find hardware in the systems section and after about one hour the hardware check was done and everything worked like it should, including the cd. Started to hang after a day or so of using it, I think it had something to do with the 2.6.9 Kernel I compiled, got rid of that and everything went back to normal, very nice distro.
If it works right, make it better!