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[rfcarter24]

Hi all:

I am a newbie to Linux installation and this forum. I have the Fedora ISO images and have used my Nero software to burn 4 discs from them. I do not see any installation files though and my system will not boot from them.

It is currently an NTFS drive with Windows 2000 server. I have no need to save anything on the drive so reformatting will be OK.

Any help/suggestions on the next steps would be appreciated. The installation guide does not seem on creating and running the installation from a Windows system.

Thanks in advance,
Rod

[pparks1]

The Fedora discs are bootable. You may have to go into the BIOS on your machine and set the boot order to boot from the CD-ROM.

The first disc should consist of 3 folders (Fedora, Images and isolinux), there will also be a couple of readme's, a handful of RPM-GPG-KEY files and the GPL and Eula.

If you are seeing these, you have the right setup. I'm sure that it is the boot order.

[scooter62]

Originally Posted by rfcarter24

Hi all:

I am a newbie to Linux installation and this forum. I have the Fedora ISO images and have used my Nero software to burn 4 discs from them. I do not see any installation files though and my system will not boot from them.

It is currently an NTFS drive with Windows 2000 server. I have no need to save anything on the drive so reformatting will be OK.

Any help/suggestions on the next steps would be appreciated. The installation guide does not seem on creating and running the installation from a Windows system.

Thanks in advance,
Rod

In Nero, did you choose Recorder | Burn Image ?

If not, you probably just burned the image files to the CD's and therefore just have 1 file on the CD, xxxxxxxx.iso
and this is the cause of your problem

Hope this helps.
Scooter62

[rfcarter24]

Thanks for the info scooter62. I see the RPM-GPG-KEY files and the GPL but only one folder. It is called SRPMS. Maybe I have an incorrect version of the files?

[rfcarter24]

Whoops, I meant to thank pparks1 too.

[mobsta]

By the looks of it you seem to have downloaded the source disks instead of the installation disks. That's what SRPMS means. If your images are named FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso and so on I'm afraid you need to download these images FC4-i386-discX.iso (X is for the number of the disk). Good luck M8.

[cdawley4]

Mobsta,

Thanks for clearing that up. I am downloading FC4 to install on a PII 450 machine to get some experience in working with Linux and a little of unix. I am downloading the FC4-i386-disc(x).iso files as well. I just wanted to make sure I was downloading the correct files before I burn them to a CD and they turn out to be the wrong files.

Thanks,

Chris

[rfcarter24]

That sounds like what I did.

Thanks!!