help with Fedora

[Scott Berry]

Hello list,

I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install 
Fedora I get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an automatic 
when I tried this however, it gave an error like this:  "i/o error 
not able to read /dev/hda."  I thought it was because there is 
another Linux distribution on the system but I went in and did a 
manual but the New Edit and Delete would not come up for some 
reason.  Can some one give me some advice as how I might go about 
fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am currently using sighted 
assistance because my notebook does not have a serial port so I will 
have to set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks much.

Scott