basic installation problem

[Mike Noble]

joshua neff wrote:
> Hi, everyone. My desktop has Red Hat 9 currently
> installed on it, but I decided to do a clean
> installation of Fedora Core 2 (rather than simply
> upgrade). I downloaded the 4 disc iso files and burned
> them to CDs (after checking the md5sums). The CD
> burnings seemed to go fine, and the discs all show the
> appropriate iso files on them. I loaded disc 1 into
> the CD-ROM drive and rebooted my desktop, but it just
> started up Red Hat 9 again, rather than the Fedora
> Core installation. Just to check, I loaded disc 1 into
> my notebook (a Dell running on Windows XP) and
> rebooted, and again, the Fedora Core installation
> didn't begin.
> 
> Any suggestions? (Keeping in mind that I'm pretty much
> a newbie when it comes to Linux, but I have some
> O'Reilly books and I'm more than willing to do the
> work to learn more. So I may be confused by highly
> technical answers, but I don't want to remain ignorant.)
> 
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This sounds like your BIOS is setup to look at the following:
floppy
HD
CD ROM

You need to change the BIOS order to have the CD ROM before the HD.
This way the boot image on the CD ROM will be found before the HD.

Mike

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