On 5/4/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Daniel Whalen wrote: > > I am having problems installing Fedora Core 3 on an old system I had laying > > around that I wanted to turn into a print server. > > > > The computer in question is an old NEC Pentium MMX 266, and the problem I am > > running into is that it just won't seem to boot from the CD Rom drive > > (adjusted it in the bios), instead it seems to skip over my Fedora disc > > entirely. > > A newer CD drive might help. Seriously. > > > > > I did a little bit of looking and found a program that was supposed to allow > > me to boot from a CD via my floppy drive called smart boot manager > > http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html but it just gave me a > > "non system disk" error when I started up with it in the floppy drive. > > A daughter (hear from my daughters when they have computer or car > problems) had a problem like this. I said "dud floppy." After some > discussion she binned it and tried a few more. > > Later she reported binning quite a few. > > > > > I think that because of the age of the system, it just does not support > > booting from CD rom (despite what the BIOS may indicate), and hopefully > > somebody here can point me in the direction of a program that will get the > > boot started from my floppy drive. > > It might be the CD drive is a bit picky about CDs it reads, there were > problems like this with early CDs and CD-R media. CD-RW is worse. > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 5/2/2005 > <takes note: when I release my next virus I must put a note like this in > the emails it sends> > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ > If your computer can boot from a Windows CD then it can also boot from a Fedora CD. Older CDROM drives may have difficulty reading media burned at high speeds. This applies to CDR as well as CD-RW media. Try burning the .iso images at 4X or slower.
