trying to install Linux

Mark Haney mark.haney at doctordirectory.com
Fri Mar 12 20:21:44 UTC 2004


Correct on both counts.  You need to  create a CD from the ISO image, not 
burn the ISO to the CD.

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:11:41 -0700, <Donald_Sass at gov.nt.ca> wrote:

> Thanks for the comments. I actually downloaded the images to my hard
> drive then burned iso images with Roxio. The CD has the iso image and
> nothing else. It looks the same as the downloaded iso image. I gather
> this is wrong and I should create a CD from the image is that correct??
> I would expect to see all the files on the CD then correct??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mikko /unix [mailto:mikko at londi.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:43 AM
> To: fedora-list /unix
> Subject: Re: trying to install Linux
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 20:15, Donald_Sass at gov.nt.ca wrote:
>> Hi.......I am new to Linux (I know very little) and I am trying to
>> install it to see how it works. Things are not going smoothly and I
> need
>> some assistance.
>> I downloaded the 3 CD iso images and did an md5sum on each and they
>> check okay.  However the CD #1 does not boot.
>
> Let me guess: you burned the ISO directly to the CD? So that on the CD
> you have the .iso-file and nothing else?
>
> You should burn a disk from the ISO image - not a disk with the image.
> How you do this depends on your cd writing software, in Nero and others
> there usually is some "write from image" or something in the menus.
>
> Hope this helps.
>



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