Re: basic installation problem

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joshua neff wrote:
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.)

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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

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The BIOS order has nothing to do with LINUX. The BIOS is your computers BIOS (this is usually an EEPROM chip on your motherboard). If you look at the documentation that came with your motherboard, it should tell you how to get into the BIOS. On my system to get into the BIOS I have to press the <delete> key while booting up the system. I have seen systems that require the <esc>, <F2>, <F8>. The basic idea is that shortly after turning on the power, you press the key and the motherboard will intercept and put you into the BIOS configuration.

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