This is governed by the BIOS manufacturer. This is usually accomplished by pressing the delete key while the system is POST'ing (during boot up). However some systems use F2.. Just depends on the BIOS manufacturer. You can usually find instructions for this while the PC is POST'ing... i.e. "Press DELETE to enter setup" All else fails look at the motherboard documentation. ----- Bryan K McClellan -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of joshua neff Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 11:38 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: basic installation problem 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
