Here's the lastest --I tried burning the ISO images at 4X on the newer Dell,
and then tried to boot on the old Gateway (G6-266). The CD-ROM (1st in the
boot queue) tried valiantly at least three times to read the CD (I could
hear the sweeps and the read light was on) but alas, it didn't happen.
One thing I could try is using different burner software that physically
makes the CD "bootable", but two things concern me:
1) The 1st fedora ISO image should boot by itself, as it does on my newer
machine, and
2) The "bootable disk" option does not seem to correspond to true ISO
format, rather more Joliet or Windows type, and so may not help...
H.
From: "H Q" <ecomeasurement@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx, fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Core 4 installation on an old Gateway
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:31:20 -0700
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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