On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:44:31AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > Ok so call me stupid but I thought that a LiveCD would allow me to boot > into a working FC7 environment on my machine without having to install. > At least most of the other major distribs that support LiveCDs do it > that way. > > However I downloaded the FC7live cd image and burnt it onto a CD. when I > boot it, it gives me no option to run FC7. Just 2 versions of install or > update, one rescue option and one boot the HD. > > So how do I run FC7 from the Live CD? It makes no sense... I wonder if you pulled in the wrong CD image by some sort of mistake. You should have a directory, Fedora-7-Live-i686, and in it these two files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 733427712 May 31 11:36 Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 May 31 11:35 SHA1SUM List the contents of SHA1SUM; you should see: [root@charlesc root]# cat ../../Fedora-7-Live-i686/SHA1SUM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 9f7caedd316d28686cb320c1640d07d403ab95ef Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso 2e08a33703b46e9484c9472d76caa4ef8a2b15b9 Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWke3tEJp0E8qb9IRAky/AKCDTCBkuiv5cKgaEr053ij1Zu2ZgQCcDJys JW6AFIPRLKPXGdqCgjm5XlY= =o5jw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- If you run sha1sum, you should see, e.g.: [root@charlesc Fedora-7-Live-i686]# sha1sum -c SHA1SUM sha1sum: Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso: No such file or directory Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso: FAILED open or read Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso: OK sha1sum: WARNING: 1 of 2 listed files could not be read -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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