I have now downloaded the free trial of Nero 6, and the image unpacks when it burns onto the CD. This still doesn't solve the problem. I put the disk into the machine, and it doesn't install the OS. I have formatted the HD of the machine I want to install to, partially because I was tired of seeing Win 98 come up when the disk failed to work. I now have burned about 3 copies of the Disk 1 for the 4 disk set without success. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Silcock [mailto:smallcreep@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:24 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: unable to install Matt Morgan wrote: > On 06/18/2004 11:22 AM, Andrew Reilly wrote: > >> I have checked the MD5 Checksums, yet I still can't install off the >> CD's that I have burned. I have unpacked the ISO's and tried to >> install. I have burned the ISO's straight onto CD's, but neither are >> recognized at bootup, and neither install the OS to the machine. WHAT >> IS THE ISSUE?!!!!!!!! >> > One common problem among people who haven't done this before is that > you may be burning the ISO onto the CD as a file, rather than an > image. Forgive me if this is not the case, it's not clear from your > message. When burning an ISO image, you normally have to select a > special command to transfer the image, rather than just copy the file > onto the CD. > > When you put those CD's into CD-rom drive on a working computer, what > do you see? Do you see a single file named *.iso? Or do you see a > whole bunch of files and directories? > > > As Matt points out, writing a file rather than an ISO image may not be the problem here. But similar questions seem to appear regularly on the mailing list, so I thought it might be useful to refer interested parties to http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/192, which contains a useful HOWTO. One reservation: if the CD writer is not mapped to a SCSI device, you will need to use "dev=/dev/hdc" or similar, not "dev=0,4,0" or similar, on the command line. Hope this helps, Peter Silcock -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
