need help with install problem

[Rich Coco]

I am trying to install fedora-fc2 on a pc.
i have successfully downloaded and burnt to cd the four
iso images. i have even burnt the boot.iso and copied the
diskboot.image file onto a zip-100 disk (using dd).
(both of these camee from ISO disk #1)
 I would have guessed i was all set, but noooo....

the PC on which i am a attempting to install Fedora will not
recognize either the boot.iso or the zip (a usb device) as bootable.

I am certain i have copied the images onto their respective media
properly. why? because I can see their contents (from another RH 9.0 PC):

The diskboot.image file dd-ed onto the zip as a bunch of .msg, .bin, .sys,
.cfg files plus a vmlinuz.

The boot.iso CD consists of a TRANS.tbl file and a directory called isolinux
that contains the same files as the (diskboot.image) zip disk)

It almost makes sense to me that the boot.iso is not a bootable
media becuse i would not have expected the boot files to be in a
directory (isolinux) but at the top level! I almost wonder if the boot.iso
file that came with the first Fedora disk was incorrectly put together.

i do not know why the pc will not boot off the zip disk.
the bios has support for it, since it lets me choose 'zip100' from
a menu of devices to check at boot time. my guess is that it's because
it's a USB device and not an IDE device? anyway, all my USB-related
bios setting are enabled, so i do not think it's a setting. maybe my bios
simply does not support booting from USB devices, period.

so...what do i do? any ideas?

eg, is there a way for me to split the diskboot.image across multiple
floppies and boot up like that?

(for the record, the target PC is currently running RH 9.0 as well.
so i tried copying the 4 Fedora ISO files to a 2nd hard drive on that
PC and, using my trusty RH 9.0 floppy boot.img, i booted up the PC and
tried to perform an install from the local hard drive. however, the RH
install stuff was too smart for that to work since it would not recognize
the Fedora ISOs. Not surprising i suppose and maybe not even smart on my 
part,
but i was/am getting desperate.)

thanks,

- rich

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