Thank you John and Kam for your responses. Unfortunately (and I should have mentioned this in the first place), the CDs and the Drives are in fine working condition (used both on another system very recently). It looks like my options are going to be either install an older copy of Red Hat, or get the FC3 images from a server. Not sure just how badly I want FC3 over Hed Hat v9, but probably not bad enough to mess with the longer complicated server route, so Red Hat wins this one 8) Daniel Whalen beeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 303.664.9976 -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Summerfied Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 5:14 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Problems installing Fedora Core 3 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/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 5/2/2005 -- 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
