On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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? > No :-( See my reply to Satish Balay earlier in this thread. > You may have copied the file to the disk instead of burning the image to > the disk. > > This mistake was done by my collegue earlier. When I mounted such CD all I see in the file system is a single file <something>.iso This was not the case here. Anyway, I burnt the CDs with Macs (two different ones) so this might be the problem. Thanks for replying, Itay
