On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 19:10, Joshua L. Jones wrote: > Thanks to everyone who helped with my Samba problem! It works great. > > I would like to install fedora now, and I have downloaded the 3 iso's > and burned them onto cd's. But I cannot get the first disk to boot the > computer. I even tried mounting the iso, copying the files out and > burning them onto a new cd and that still didn't work.
You can't just copy the CD's contents and burn them to a new CD. Of course that cd won't boot. To make the CD bootable takes some special steps, which results in a bootable iso image. The first fedora core CD iso image is already bootable. The first disk should already be bootable. If it's not, then either you have a bad burn, a burn from a bad download, or your computer has issues with some bootable cds. (Did you check the md5-sum of the iso images before you burned them?) Anyway, if you look on the first disk in the images directory, you'll find a floppy image that you can write to a floppy. This will let you boot on a floppy first which then loads up the CD. Older machines have to do this. Michael > > > I know that the cdrom can boot the computer because when I boot with my > old RH 9.0 installation cd, the thing boots up just fine. > > One weird thing I tried was booting of the RH 9.0 cd and then puting in > the non-iso cd I made of fedora-core. It started up but eventually said > it could not find fedora-core on the cdrom. > > The iso's I downloaded were named yarrow-i386-disc1.iso. The m5dsum > checked out. > > Thanks, > josh > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
