> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:23 -0500, Fred Vachon wrote: > > > Hi - I have downloaded via bittorrent FC-5-i386-DVD.iso and burnt image > > > on DVD using K3b. But I am unable to boot from the DVD when I restart > > > my computer. I tried burning the boot.iso image to CD but couldn't get > > > that to boot into FC5 either. It boots into FC4 which is what I am > > > currently running. I installed FC4 by booting off the DVD but can't get > > > it to boot from the FC5 DVD. Any ideas much appreciated. Thanks - fred > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:31 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Did you burn it as an image or as a file (are there mutliple files and > > directories on the disk, or just one)? > > > > Is your machine configured to boot from CD/DVD? Do you have any other > > bootable CDs/DVDs you can try? > > > > Paul. > > > > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:10 -0500, Fred Vachon wrote: > Thanks Paul - I burnt it both ways - as a single iso file and as an > image "Burn DVD ISO image" from K3b that has multiple files. Neither > would boot. > > I tried to restart with an old CD1 of an earlier Fedora release and a > bootable Knoppix CD that I had. But no luck. > > I read in some install notes about configuring bios settings to boot > first from CD drive but I'm not sure how to do this and I never had to > configure anything before. I have booted from this CD/DVD drive > previously (prior to FC4) so I'm not sure why it doesn't work now. I > must not be configured to boot from CD/DVD but not sure how to change > this? On a restart the DVD drive does get recognized and the disk spins > - but then it boots into FC4. > > thanks again - fred v. Sorry - I forgot about the bottom posting rule on the mail list.
