basic installation problem

[Mike Noble]

joshua neff wrote:
> Okay, so I'm attempting to burn new CDs the right way.
> Now, I apologuze if this sounds stupid, but, does this
> seem right?: Using RH9's Nautilus, a window
> automatically opens up for the blank CD, labelled
> "burn:///"; I clicked and dragged the first disc iso
> over into the "burn" window; do I now click on "Write
> CD" and on "Target to write to" I click on "File
> Image"? I'm not seeing any other way to "create CD
> from image."
> 
> Again, I apologize if this sounds really ignorant.
> This is the first time I've burned CDs using RH9.
> 
> --- joshua neff <joshua_neff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, hell. Okay, I'll reburn the CDs. Thanks.
>>
>>And thanks to everyone with the BIOS info. I checked
>>the documentation online, and now I have an even
>>better idea of how my computer works.
>>
>>--- fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:19:00AM -0700, 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
>>>              ^^^^^^^^^
>>>Here's your problem, right here (above). When you
>>>view the 
>>>contents of the CDROM after doing the burn you
>>>SHOULD NOT
>>>see any ISO files. You SHOULD see a filesystem
>>>containing a
>>>number of files and subdirectories.
>>>
>>>If all you see is a single file, the ISO file,
>>>you've not done
>>>it right. The ISO is an image of a CDROM. YOu need
>>>to tell your
>>>CD burning tools to "create cd from image".
>>
>>Exactly
>>
>>>how you do 
>>>that depends on which software you are using.
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.)
>>>
>>>>=====
>>>>--joshua m. neff
>>>>
>>>>www.goblin-cartoons.com
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>and
>>
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>>
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>>
>>>Amen."
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>>=====
>>--joshua m. neff
>>
>>www.goblin-cartoons.com
>>
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> 
> 
> =====
> --joshua m. neff
> 
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Never tried that way, I have used xcdroast and k3b, k3b is my
preference.  I will say that I have found that 16X works the best
even though my CDRW is capable of 48x.

Mike
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