Well, hell. Okay, I'll reburn the CDs. Thanks. And thanks to everyone with the BIOS info. I checked the documentation online, and now I have an even better idea of how my computer works. --- fredex <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:19:00AM -0700, 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 > ^^^^^^^^^ > Here's your problem, right here (above). When you > view the > contents of the CDROM after doing the burn you > SHOULD NOT > see any ISO files. You SHOULD see a filesystem > containing a > number of files and subdirectories. > > If all you see is a single file, the ISO file, > you've not done > it right. The ISO is an image of a CDROM. YOu need > to tell your > CD burning tools to "create cd from image". Exactly > how you do > that depends on which software you are using. > > > 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 > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ----------------------------- > "For him who is able to keep you from falling and > to present you before his > glorious presence without fault and with great > joy--to the only God our Savior > be glory, majesty, power and authority, through > Jesus Christ our Lord, before > all ages, now and forevermore! > Amen." > ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) > ----------------------------- > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature > -- > 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!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
