FC2: failed to boot from installation CDs

[Itay Furman]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Itay Furman wrote:
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to Fedora and trying to install FC2 -- and failed right
> > at the beginning.
> >
> > My machine is IBM T41 laptop; pentium M.
> > I tried the Installation CDs, the DVD, and boot.iso burnt on a
> > CD. The machine won't boot from them, and instead will continue
> > to boot from the HD a previously installed system.
> >
> > To be sure, I checked RH9 installation CDs, Knoppix 3.1, and they
> > boot normally.
> >
> > Also, I was able to mount the FC2 CDs and DVD on another linux
> > machine with no problem -- so I think it is not an issue with the
> > burning.
> 
> No such issue here (booting of FC2 CD-1 on a T40)..
> 
> Are you able to boot off these CDs on this other machine?
> 

Good point, I should have thought about it my self. Now I checked 
another machine -- and it didn't as well. Sigh...