liveMedia installation problems burning to CD...

[klahanni]

summary: The burn-to-CD step is failing, and every attempt I have to download the iso file. Where is the ISO file stored temporarily, so I can try to burn it myself.

details...

Here is the bumpy and unsatifying experience of a newbie, trying to download and burn the fed-13 live CD. I havent succeeded yet, has anyone?

1 first attempt
I tried the live media link "download now". you have to choose between save and open. Save sounds right but isnt. It creates a useless file and goes away.

2. try "open" in the dialog box. It takes a very long time to download, so while you're doing other things a window pops up saying an application is "intruding" allow or deny. I deny, and then watch the download window disappear.

3. same steps as 2 but allow. impressively it opens my burning software and so I put a CD in and start the process. Unfortunately it enters a seemingly infinite loop "preparing CD" and after 15 mins I try to cancel the operation. no go. it just continues preparing. eventually I kill it with windows task manager.

4. Same as 3 but with the blank CD in the drive in case that caused the infinite loop preparing to burn. Unfortunately the CD was now corrupted and so it failed. No option to continue or try again with the downloaded file.
I search for the 700-ish MB file I've now downloaded three times, but cannot find it.
I remove the corrupted CD and destroy it (they shatter when bent, oops) and put a fresh one in.

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5. Now I'm on my fourth attempt, each time involves the painful download of the file.

So...
I'm downloading on my windows 7 machine, anyone know where it hides the iso image.
At least I wouldnt have to download it over and over again until I can debug the burning process.

I'm burning to CD because I'm installing on an old dell dimension 2300 and it only has a CD.

[kuppuswamy]

Hi klahanni welcome to fedora community. It is very easy to download fedora 13 iso image and burn it on a cd. what you have to do is from fedora download site download the iso file of fedora13 live or installable iso image. In windows it is down loaded into the document folder or if you have download folder and if not you do a through search in the document folder. Then burn the iso image into blanck cd with using nero. Once you burn into a new cd that's all you have to reboot to load the live cd of fedora13 from there you install into your harddrive.

[klahanni]

It worked this time, burned the CD. I took it out and put it in a dell dimension 2300 (obsolete desktop) and restarted it . I'd googled how to change the boot order after it booted into windowsXP (press f12 during restart continuously till it takes, then select the boot device), and I was able to get to the point where firefox "cant find the server at mozilla.com". Windows xp could find the internet connection automatically. I'll have to hack on... but not on the problem of this thread which is moot for me now.

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Thanks for the quick feedback kuppuswamy! I did do a search for the file and never did locate it. I didnt have to do anything though except have the CD loaded before and guess answers to ambiguous dialogs, and persevere through a few miserable hours. It's easy next time, just not for a newbie.

---------- Post added at 11:55 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 11:30 PM CDT ----------

... and I guess it helps if the ethernet cable is properly seated for the internet connection! connected now. looks good.

[manjil76]

I have burned the fedora 13 iso image CD using Brasero. This live CD worked well in new computer (PIV 3.2 GHz, D945 intel and 512 DDR2, Where I burned) but hanged on "fedora screen" after booting in old computer (PIV 3 GHz, D865 intel, 256 DDR RAM). I have tried with all possible option from BIOS and other option from fedora 13 screen to boot as well as memory test.

[lionhart]

Hello, as you can see, the firt hardware barely commit the requisites of the installer and because of that its works but the second hardware doesn't... you should install more memory to the second computer and it should works... but you should consider that there is a special recomendation in the instalation... you should use at least 1 GB of Ram for a better execution of the SO
Best regards!