On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:03, Ian Desjarlais wrote: > Weeks ago I downloaded the RH Linux 9 ISO's and was clueless. Yesterday I > downloaded and burned the three ISO;s for Fedora, and not much has changed... I > have laptop running XP professional on a double partitioned HD (1/2 is XP, 1/2 > is unformatted) I tried to boot off of the first ISO and nothing happend > except windows booted. I then tried imaging the boot floopy, but it was larger > than 1.4 mb...it didn't fit. I also have no clue how to run a shell prompt > to check the MD5cheksumthing or other. Here I now find myself asking for any > help that peopel may give. > > IanD Ian, Check that CDROM is bootable in your BIOS. Also, you may not have burned the first ISO as 'bootable'. --jeremy
