<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>Hi All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>my name is Ron and I am pretty new to the LINUX world. I have worked on UNIX but have never done any administration work and over the past year have begun working with LINUX and am trying to learn about the administration so I can maintain a copy of the OS on my PC at home. Eventually I plan on having Oracle insalled too, as that is my primary field of expertise.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>I have RedHat 9 installed on an older PIII and it appears to run just fine and did have RedHat AS 2.1 on my main PC, never could get my HP print driver installed, and have uninstalled that in favor of working with Fedora. I have downloaded Fedora Core 2 to install however I am unable to get the install disks to work and would love to have some insight on how to get this installed. I did go through and look at the archives for Sept, I know Sept just started however I believe this has to be something really simple and was hoping someone could point me to an archive thread with the solution or provide the solution for me. The details for my system are below along with the home dir of my first Fedora CD and the message I am getting.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>Dell 1.2 P IIII Precision 330</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>1 gig RAM</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>120 gig HD, OS Windows 2000</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>80 gig HD, OS <hopefully LINUX></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>When I try to boot from the 1st CD I downloaded nothing happens, this is the home dir of this CD from a Windows listing:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004><U>Name </U> <U> Type </U></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>SRPMS File Folder</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>.discinfo DISCINFO File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>eula.txt Text Document</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>GPL File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>RPM-GPG_KEY File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>RPM-GPG-KEY-beta File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>TRANS.TBL TBL File</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>Since the first disc does not appear to be a bootable cd I have created the restore and boot cd's to boot up RecHat. However when I reboot with either CD I get to the installation window asking for the Fedora Core CD and get the following message:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>"The Fedora Core CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Fedora Core CD and press OK to retry."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>I have tried putting in all 4 of my RedHat CD's to no avail, and have even tried leaving my boot and restore CD's in the drive without any luck either. I have even tried updating the tbl file to include the directory/path to point to the CD in the drive which didn't work either. As I am new to LINUX administration any help would be appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004>Ron</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=865234804-06092004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>