Thanks for your letter. I'm currently using some silver TDK CD-R media
which was just purchased. I assumed it would be satisfactory. They were
burned at 8X. I use a newer Dell to download and image the ISO's onto the
CD's.
I will try 4X, and then try to boot from the Gateway CD-ROM again.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated --incidentally, my old Gateway
for some reason is not giving me the dual boot screen for FreeBSD/Windows
98, either. (This happened prior to any Fedora Linux installation). I was
hoping to just use the existing 5 GB of FreeBSD "unused space" on the
non-primary partition, and install Linux over it.
H.
From: Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx>,For users of Fedora Core releases
<fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Core 4 installation on an old Gateway
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:03:16 -0700
On 7/17/05, H Q <ecomeasurement@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I burned the ISO images to CD, and they worked on my newer machine, but
the
> old Gateway would not read them off its CD-ROM drive. I tried making
the
> boot diskette (changing the boot sequence accordingly), but that
wouldn't
> work on either machine ("boot failed")
>
> I tried changing the default boot sequence on the Gateway to an external
RW
> CD drive, but none of the options in the BIOS seemed to refer to the
> external drive. I tried FLOPTICAL, SCSI device, with no luck.
>
> The CD-ROM on the Gateway *did* read the ISO boot from a previous
FreeBSD
> distribution, and still does, so it may not be the drive itself.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> H.
>
Have you tried using different media (gold vs silver colored disc or
different brand/manufacturer) and burning the image at a lower speed
(4X)?
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