Olivier Delaporte wrote:
Hello
I am trying to install Fedora C3 on a DELL Optiplex gx240 (P4 512Mb 20Gb). So I downloaded the four iso files from http://download.fedora.redhat.com <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/>, burned four cd-roms with the ISO file system (roxio v5 on win2k). The pc tries to boot from the cd-rom drive but does not find anything on the cd-rom to boot from. What steps am I missing? The hard disk is empty. What am I doing wrong or not doing at all?
Thank you
The ISO images are raw data files that represent the 600 mb or so CDROMs that you are wanting. Did you burn the isos with a setting similar to burn from image? If you have another computer that you can view the burned CDs in, do they contain one big file or are they full of directories and files, which you want to achieve?
I installed successfully on a Dell Optiplex gx270, so the computer you are using has a chance to work with FC3.
I believe the Dell BIOS has the default boot set to floppy, harddrive, then CDROM. You might want to set it to boot from floppy first, cdrom second, then hard disk. There might be something on the disk that Dell hangs on while trying to boot a disk with no real information.
Also, since you are using a hard disk with no information, you might want to setup the disk using a dos/windows startup disk and use fdisk to setup a partition, then remove it during the installation of FC3. The reason I mentioned this is that I had to do something similar to get a brand new disk to be partitionable for Linux. Setting up a partition scheme using the other OS cleared the problem.
Jim
