Robbie: You need to burn the ISO files onto CD's, or somehow obtain a Fedora CD set. So before you blow away Windows, use your CD burner to make the discs.Message: 15 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:27:25 -0500 From: "Robbie Jolley" <rjolley91@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Migrating from Win2000 to Fedora To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <003c01c4f458$0b634110$487bdb0c@cmc3083075a> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
I am new to Linux and have no idea how to install Fedora over a failing Windows installation. I have the iso files, but no idea how to kick off the install.
You should be able to boot from CD #1 and run anaconda. When you get to the point of partitioning the hard disk, let the installer use all space on the disk. That will allow you to wipe everything away and install Fedora.
This will not work for you if you don't have a CD burner, or can't get your machine to boot from CD, or you don't know how to perform these tasks. Most reasonably modern machines I have seen let you select the order of boot devices either through the BIOS setup or through a special menu that appears briefly at a cold startup of the system.
If you do not have a CD burner, you need to obtain CD's either from a friend who has them, or perhaps in one of the trade books out which include CD's. It is possible to install in some other ways, such as over a network, but these don't sound like they would help you.
I hope this helps; reply with more specifics if this is not enough help. Erik
Thanks
