--- Volker Kindermann <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. ... Not the one that I made. I tried, and failed, to boot from it, before going the boot.iso route. > ... What's on > your first CD? Only the image file or a filesystem > with some directories > and many files? Here's a top-level directory listing for the boot disk: ~(45) ls -l /mnt/cdrom total 3 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 May 13 05:24 isolinux/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 220 May 13 05:24 TRANS.TBL Here's a top-level directory listing for disk 1: ~(46) ls -l /mnt/cdrom total 183 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 248 May 13 05:02 autorun* -r--r--r-- 1 root root 78 May 13 05:27 .discinfo -r--r--r-- 9 root root 5611 May 13 05:02 eula.txt dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 May 13 05:27 Fedora/ -r--r--r-- 9 root root 18385 May 13 05:02 GPL dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 May 13 05:27 images/ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 May 13 05:27 isolinux/ -r--r--r-- 2 root root 12667 May 13 05:02 README-Accessibility -r--r--r-- 2 root root 5299 May 13 05:02 README-en -r--r--r-- 2 root root 7465 May 13 05:02 README-en.html -r--r--r-- 2 root root 47589 May 13 05:02 RELEASE-NOTES-en -r--r--r-- 2 root root 67109 May 13 05:02 RELEASE-NOTES-en.html -r--r--r-- 9 root root 1910 May 13 05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY -r--r--r-- 9 root root 1706 May 13 05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta -r--r--r-- 9 root root 1519 May 13 05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora -r--r--r-- 9 root root 1105 May 13 05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide -r--r--r-- 9 root root 1076 May 13 05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test -r--r--r-- 9 root root 1232 May 13 05:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4056 May 13 05:39 TRANS.TBL __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
