That makes sense. So...how do I change the BIOS order? I'm looking through Linux in a Nutshell, but I'm not finding anything that easily says how to do this. --- Mike Noble <mgnoble@xxxxxxx> wrote: > joshua neff wrote: > > Hi, everyone. My desktop has Red Hat 9 currently > > installed on it, but I decided to do a clean > > installation of Fedora Core 2 (rather than simply > > upgrade). I downloaded the 4 disc iso files and > burned > > them to CDs (after checking the md5sums). The CD > > burnings seemed to go fine, and the discs all show > the > > appropriate iso files on them. I loaded disc 1 > into > > the CD-ROM drive and rebooted my desktop, but it > just > > started up Red Hat 9 again, rather than the Fedora > > Core installation. Just to check, I loaded disc 1 > into > > my notebook (a Dell running on Windows XP) and > > rebooted, and again, the Fedora Core installation > > didn't begin. > > > > Any suggestions? (Keeping in mind that I'm pretty > much > > a newbie when it comes to Linux, but I have some > > O'Reilly books and I'm more than willing to do the > > work to learn more. So I may be confused by highly > > technical answers, but I don't want to remain > ignorant.) > > > > ===== > > --joshua m. neff > > > > www.goblin-cartoons.com > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We > finish. > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > This sounds like your BIOS is setup to look at the > following: > floppy > HD > CD ROM > > You need to change the BIOS order to have the CD ROM > before the HD. > This way the boot image on the CD ROM will be found > before the HD. > > Mike > > -- > Usenix member http://www.usenix.org > Sage member http://www.sage.org > Registered Linux User #362275 http://counter.li.org > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ===== --joshua m. neff www.goblin-cartoons.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
