Re: FC2-i386-disc1.iso

[Robert <kerplop sbcglobal net>]

Jeffrey Belback wrote:
> Has anyone else had a problem w/
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-
> disc1.iso? I'm trying to do my first even install of Linux, and my computer
> will not boot from the CD I made from this image. I can view the contents of
> the disk from the WinXP computer I made it on, but it crashes Windows
> Explorer on other computers. I AM able to boot from the disk created from
> FC2-i386-rescuecd.iso w/ no problem and view the contents of disks 2-4 as
> well as the rescue disk...
>
> Thanks,
> Jeffrey Belback
> jbelback verizon net

Uh....  I just popped a FC2-i386-disc1.iso CDR into the drive on my 
Win98 box and have no problem at all in viewing the directory structure.
In fact, if I open a DOS window and do D:\>dir


 Volume in drive D is FC_2 i386
 Volume Serial Number is F580-007A
 Directory of D:\

DISCIN~6                78  05-13-04  5:27a .discinfo
FEDORA         <DIR>        05-13-04  5:27a Fedora
GPL                 18,385  05-13-04  5:02a GPL
READM~12            12,667  05-13-04  5:02a README-Accessibility
READM~14             5,299  05-13-04  5:02a README-en
READM~16 HTM         7,465  05-13-04  5:02a README-en.html
RELEA~18            47,589  05-13-04  5:02a RELEASE-NOTES-en
RELEA~20 HTM        67,109  05-13-04  5:02a RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
RPM-G~22             1,910  05-13-04  5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY
RPM-G~24             1,706  05-13-04  5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
RPM-G~26             1,519  05-13-04  5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
RPM-G~28             1,105  05-13-04  5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
RPM-G~30             1,076  05-13-04  5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
RPM-G~32             1,232  05-13-04  5:02a RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
TRANS    TBL         4,056  05-13-04  5:39a TRANS.TBL
AUTORUN                248  05-13-04  5:02a autorun
EULA     TXT         5,611  05-13-04  5:02a eula.txt
IMAGES         <DIR>        05-13-04  5:27a images
ISOLINUX       <DIR>        05-13-04  5:27a isolinux
        16 file(s)        177,055 bytes
         3 dir(s)               0 bytes free

This is what you should get and what you will get if the CD is good. If 
you are seeing (in WinXP, naturally) a single very large file, you have 
burned the CD incorrectly.


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