Re: Quick question on installing FC4 from CD...

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On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 15:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:57, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >A quick question. I just burned FC4 ISO's onto CD's. When I reboot my
> >machine so that it will go to the CD to install/upgrade FC4, it "looks"
> > at the CD, then goes back to the hard drive and boots FC1 as usual. I
> > vaguely recall a command I need to do to make the install CD come up
> > instead of just booting normally into FC1. It's been too long since
> > I've done this! BTW, I have examinded the CD, all the files are there,
> > and yes, I did burn the ISO as an "image" to my CD. I tried a second
> > CD, just to make sure, with the same results.
> >
> >Thanks for any help!
> >
> Do you have the cdrom set as the first or second device to boot from in
> the bios?  It should be in front of the hard drive.
> 
> If thats the case, then when you mount the cd to look at it, do you
> see the install tree, or a single file whose name is the same as the .iso
> you made it from.  In the latter case you burnt it wrong, you want to
> 'burn an image' in your burner software.
> 
just in case you missed this part of his original email ...

"BTW, I have examinded the CD, all the files are there, and yes, I did
burn the ISO as an "image" to my CD."

> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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