Cannot Mount DVD ISO

[Stall]

Good day all. I decided to switch from Ubuntu Gutsy to Fedora a while back, and am quiet excited to do so. Fedora looks like a great distro, and I cannot wait to have it up and running.

However, I encounter a bit of a problem. I cannot seem to mount the DVD ISO. When I attempt to mount the ISO, I get an error message reading "The file '/home/me/Desktop/Fedora-7-i386/F-7-i386-DVD.iso' is not a valid disc image.". Is there a different process to mounting a DVD ISO, or am I just doing something wrong. My drive can write DVDs, I did check. That isn't the problem.

I would greatly prefer to install by CD/DVD, but if I must, I will attempt to install with other methods.

Thank you for your time,
Stall.

[LocutusOfBorg]

If you are planning to burn the iso, there's absolutely no need to mount it. Burn it as an image and then boot hte pc from the burned dvd.
If you want to perform an hard-disk installation without burning the iso, you can mount the iso and extract the isolinux folder from it - then you have to set up grub for booting the installer.
Mounting an iso image is something like

mount -o loop -t iso9660 yourimage.iso /your/mount/point

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme...ng-isos/en_US/
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...l-methods.html

[CD-RW]

If you have already downloaded the DVD iso image you could do the following:

Download the network installer called boot.iso, see this link:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...ich-files.html

burn the boot.iso image to a CD.

boot your machine from the boot.iso CD

Select 'Install or upgrade an existing system (text mode)'

In 'Installation Method' - What type of media contains the packages to be installed?

select the 'Hard drive' option, and press return.

Then continue from there.

You may need to mount the DVD iso image first, as mentioned above.

For more details, please see:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...harddrive.html