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Problem booting from the Fedora install CD

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enjoijeff:

quote:  That makes no difference if he's burning isos.
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Well, he might have just burned the ISO straight to the CD that way it's just one file and didn't expand into multiple files.

flap:
Well that has nothing to do with the isos being bootable.

enjoijeff:
Yes it does if he just burned it as a file on to the disc then it's not going to boot... but then again if he got an error message in the first place then he must have burned them right...

[ March 13, 2004: Message edited by: enjoijeff ]

flap:
No, you misunderstand me. Whether or not he can burn isos to disc has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not those isos are bootable.

Annorax:
I had the same problem when I first tried installing Mandrake. Turns out that some CD/DVD drives can't properly boot non-Windows boot CD's. I had to boot from a floppy and run the Mandrake CD's from my burner. Never figured out why...

EDIT: As I understand it, most Linux distros have a small Windows partition on the first CD with a RAWRITE executable and disk image for a boot CD. Try that, and if you have a second CD drive available, try installing from it after a boot from floppy as well.

[ March 14, 2004: Message edited by: Annorax, Temporal Revisionist ]

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