installing fedora distros

[ladybluballs]

hi I have distros of fedora core 7 on dvd from 2 different venders and can not get them to open when I try to boot my dvd drive gets busy for a little while then quits and boots to my win xp I have 2 computers and the dvd will not install on either one I have bios set to boot to dvd first I have no problem with live cd ubunta and a few others is there something I need to set for the fedora to install or is the distro bad thanks for any help ps the suse distro will not install either

[Melio]

If the dvd's are not booting from your cd, but live cds are, there is something bad about those dvds.

try downloading them from mirrors and burn the dvd yourself. if you cannot. I would assume the vendors burned the dvds in a format your dvd drive can't read.

If that's the case, you may want to spring for a dvd drive that can read multiple formats of dvd disc types.

[ladybluballs]

Originally Posted by Melio

you should go into your BIOS and set the dvd drive as your first bootable device.

There are many methods to enter the BIOS setup screen, it's sometimes F1 at boot, ESC key, or F10 .

it depends on what your system is, try each one, when the logo screen fires up for your vendor, when it gives you text at the bottom or at the top that sais entering setup, or press Fsomething to enter setup .. Then follow those instructions.

once in the bios, look for Boot order, or First boot order, or something along those lines and ajust the boot up settings to do DVD, then HD

once that's setup, save your bios settings, and let it reboot. have the disc in the drive. and enjoy your time installing fedora 7.

if there's still problems please try to be descriptive. and I wish you good luck.

thanks for reply but thats not the problem I have all that set right as I know windows fairly well and have xp installed it seems that the linux disk is missing something but I have disk from two different venders and cant see as both to be bad but I quess its possible,my computer is amd socket 754 and to my understanding amd was designed for linux os I really want to get away from windows as I have to go through a lot of bull when I have to replace a mother board or hard drive with microsoft thanks for any help

[ladybluballs]

Originally Posted by Melio

If the dvd's are not booting from your cd, but live cds are, there is something bad about those dvds.

try downloading them from mirrors and burn the dvd yourself. if you cannot. I would assume the vendors burned the dvds in a format your dvd drive can't read.

If that's the case, you may want to spring for a dvd drive that can read multiple formats of dvd disc types.

thanks for reply but I cant down load from here as I only have slow dialup I belive you are right on with the problem and thanks I have 2 dvd drives on my computer and it will not work with either but one is fairly old

[Melio]

ok I hope things work out for you for installing fedora soon.