NUBIE to alternate OS world-Install

[Johan Broman]

Simply put in the first CD in your CD-rom drive and reboot your 
computer. Go into BIOS setup and change the boot-order so that the 
machine tries to boot from the cd before the hd.

good luck
/j

Ian Desjarlais wrote:

>Weeks ago I downloaded the RH Linux 9 ISO's and was clueless.  Yesterday I
>downloaded and burned the three ISO;s for Fedora, and not much has changed... I
>have laptop running XP professional on a double partitioned HD (1/2 is XP, 1/2
>is unformatted)  I tried to boot off of the first ISO and nothing happend
>except windows booted.  I then tried imaging the boot floopy, but it was larger
>than 1.4 mb...it didn't fit.    I also have no clue how to run  a shell prompt
>to check the   MD5cheksumthing or other.  Here I now find myself asking for any
>help that peopel may give.  
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>IanD 
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