On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:23, Itay Furman wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Fedora and trying to install FC2 -- and failed right > at the beginning. > > My machine is IBM T41 laptop; pentium M. > I tried the Installation CDs, the DVD, and boot.iso burnt on a > CD. The machine won't boot from them, and instead will continue > to boot from the HD a previously installed system. > > To be sure, I checked RH9 installation CDs, Knoppix 3.1, and they > boot normally. > > Also, I was able to mount the FC2 CDs and DVD on another linux > machine with no problem -- so I think it is not an issue with the > burning. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance for all help. > Itay > Will the other machine boot from those disks? You may have copied the file to the disk instead of burning the image to the disk. >