Cannot install FC2
Bill Tetens
zuki269 at netscape.net
Thu Aug 12 21:01:14 UTC 2004
No joy in mudville. Still had the files downloaded by bit torrent and I
burned a new disk 1 using ISO and the orginial file. Still does not
work and I get the same error message.
zuki269 at netscape.net wrote:
> I think the problem has been found. I burned them as data so I will
> burn them as ISO files and let you know how it turns out. Knew it had
> to be something I done.
>
> Thanks everyone.....
>
> webid at cfl.rr.com wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:08, Bill Tetens wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Totally new to Linux and am trying to install Fedora on a computer with
>>>a blank HDD. I put disk one in the CD and changed the boot order
>>>putting the CD Rom first.
>>>
>>>The following error message is displayed after the CD appears to be checked.
>>>
>>>Reboot and select proper boot device
>>>or insert boot media in selectefd boot device.
>>>
>>>The CD passed the checksum so I am assuming that it is OK but don't
>>>have a clue where to go now. I know something is wrong but what.
>>>
>>>Help would be more than appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Welcome aboard!
>>
>>Most likely you need to configure your bios to boot from the CDrom
>>drive.
>>
>>The next most likely problem is that when you burned the CDs you did not
>>burn them as images. In you CD burner software there should be an
>>option to burn the CD as an iso or image, then select the iso file you
>>downloaded. This will burn a bootable CD. If you just burned the iso
>>as data to the CD that will not work.
>>
>>My money is on the bios settings.
>>
>>
>
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