Cannot install FC2

[Bill Tetens]

By the time number four was done I really had a close shave.  That was 
the problem.  I seen the wording about inmages in the info I read but 
never did it tell me to save convert the ISO files to image.  Well today 
I will try to install.  Maybe it will be easier but I bet I have trouble 
with it also.  Do you know of a book or two that starts at the basics 
and have info that is basic.  I am starting at ground zero.

Thanks

thomas.cameron at camerontech.com wrote:
> That's the problem - you wrote the ISO image to cd as a single file.  That's
> not what an ISO is for.  It's actually a block by block image of a complete
> CD.
> 
> What you need to do is use your burning software to write the image to CD.
> Once you do this the CD should have the following files on it:
> 
> autorun   README-Accessibility   RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
> eula.txt  README-en              RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> Fedora    README-en.html         RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
> GPL       RELEASE-NOTES-en       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
> images    RELEASE-NOTES-en.html  RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
> isolinux  RPM-GPG-KEY            TRANS.TBL
> 
> What CD burning software are you using?  If you have Nero (I recommend it
> highly for Windows users - ftp://ftp.us.nero.com/nero63117.exe), open up
> Nero Express.  Choose "Disc Image or Saved Project".  Navigate to the
> location in which the ISO images on your hard drive are stored.  You'll have
> to change the very bottom drop-down menu titled "Files of Type:" to "Image
> Files (*.nrg, *.iso, *.cue)" and then you'll see the ISO images.  Highlight
> the first ISO image and click "Open."  You should now see the ISO image and
> the drive to which you want to write it.  Click "Next."  You'll watch the
> image burn to disk and then get a message that the burn process completed
> successfully.
> 
> Lather, rinse, and repeat for disks 2-4.
> 
> Cheers!
> Thomas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Bill Tetens
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
> 
> 
> using windows explorer the disc shows uip with one file names
> FC2-i386-disc1.ISO and a second file that is the checksum file.
> 
> ceubank at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca wrote:
> 
> ....Can you read the CD's on the windows machine through explorer?
> 
> Chris
> 
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]  On Behalf Of Scot L. Harris
> Sent:   August 12, 2004 2:25 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject:    Re: Cannot install FC2
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:01, Bill Tetens wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> So did you verify in the bios that the CDrom is configured as a boot
> device and listed ahead of the harddisk drive?
> 
> 
> 
> 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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