Hi James, > I went to http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#room and > successfully followed the instructions there to > download the ISO images for disks 1-4. I followed the > link to > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-disks-cdrw.html > and successfully followed the instructions there to > use X-CD-Roast to create the CDs. good. > I extracted the > boot.iso file from the first disk, and used the same > techniques to create a supposed "boot" disk from > boot.iso. However, I can't actually boot from it. You shouldn't need to do this. Fedora's first CD is bootable. What's on your first CD? Only the image file or a filesystem with some directories and many files? -volker