Hello. Thanks, Michael. But I still can't boot off the first fedora-core iso cd. The md5sums are correct. My computer doesn't have a working floppy drive. And what really bugs is that the RH 9.0 cd boots it up just fine. Maybe I downloaded the wrong isos? I have an intel pentium IV. I usually use x86 versions of everything. Should I be using the srpms discs, or maybe somehting else?
Thanks, josh On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send newbies mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of newbies digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Can't bood from fedora iso cd (Joshua L. Jones) > 2. Re: Can't bood from fedora iso cd (Michael Torrie) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: 04 May 2004 21:10:38 -0400 > From: "Joshua L. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [newbies] Can't bood from fedora iso cd > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Thanks to everyone who helped with my Samba problem! It works great. > > I would like to install fedora now, and I have downloaded the 3 iso's > and burned them onto cd's. But I cannot get the first disk to boot the > computer. I even tried mounting the iso, copying the files out and > burning them onto a new cd and that still didn't work. > > I know that the cdrom can boot the computer because when I boot with my > old RH 9.0 installation cd, the thing boots up just fine. > > One weird thing I tried was booting of the RH 9.0 cd and then puting in > the non-iso cd I made of fedora-core. It started up but eventually said > it could not find fedora-core on the cdrom. > > The iso's I downloaded were named yarrow-i386-disc1.iso. The m5dsum > checked out. > > Thanks, > josh > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:40:52 -0600 > From: Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [newbies] Can't bood from fedora iso cd > To: Newbie Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 19:10, Joshua L. Jones wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped with my Samba problem! It works great. > > > > I would like to install fedora now, and I have downloaded the 3 iso's > > and burned them onto cd's. But I cannot get the first disk to boot the > > computer. I even tried mounting the iso, copying the files out and > > burning them onto a new cd and that still didn't work. > > You can't just copy the CD's contents and burn them to a new CD. Of > course that cd won't boot. To make the CD bootable takes some special > steps, which results in a bootable iso image. The first fedora core CD > iso image is already bootable. > > The first disk should already be bootable. If it's not, then either you > have a bad burn, a burn from a bad download, or your computer has issues > with some bootable cds. (Did you check the md5-sum of the iso images > before you burned them?) > > Anyway, if you look on the first disk in the images directory, you'll > find a floppy image that you can write to a floppy. This will let you > boot on a floppy first which then loads up the CD. Older machines have > to do this. > > Michael > > > > > > > I know that the cdrom can boot the computer because when I boot with my > > old RH 9.0 installation cd, the thing boots up just fine. > > > > One weird thing I tried was booting of the RH 9.0 cd and then puting in > > the non-iso cd I made of fedora-core. It started up but eventually said > > it could not find fedora-core on the cdrom. > > > > The iso's I downloaded were named yarrow-i386-disc1.iso. The m5dsum > > checked out. > > > > Thanks, > > josh > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > newbies mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
