Install Fedora Core 2

[Scott Talbot]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:28 -0600, Ronald wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> my name is Ron and I am pretty new to the LINUX world.   I have worked
> on UNIX but have never done any administration work and over the past
> year have begun working with LINUX and am trying to learn about the
> administration so I can maintain a copy of the OS on my PC at home.
> Eventually I plan on having Oracle insalled too, as that is my primary
> field of expertise.
>  
> I have RedHat 9 installed on an older PIII and it appears to run just
> fine and did have RedHat AS 2.1 on my main PC, never could get my HP
> print driver installed, and have uninstalled that in favor of working
> with Fedora.   I have downloaded Fedora Core 2 to install however I am
> unable to get the install disks to work and would love to have some
> insight on how to get this installed.   I did go through and look at
> the archives for Sept, I know Sept just started however I believe this
> has to be something really simple and was hoping someone could point
> me to an archive thread with the solution or provide the solution for
> me.   The details for my system are below along with the home dir of
> my first Fedora CD and the message I am getting.
>  
> Dell 1.2 P IIII Precision 330
> 1 gig RAM
> 120 gig HD, OS Windows 2000
> 80 gig HD, OS <hopefully LINUX>
> When I try to boot from the 1st CD I downloaded nothing happens, this
> is the home dir of this CD from a Windows listing:
> Name                                                Type        
> SRPMS                                            File Folder
The .iso you downloaded is for the Source RPMs. these disks are for
information use (unless you have a system and really want to build it
from scratch)

Go back to the website and download the *.iso files that do not contain
the letters .srpm in the file name and you will be o.k.

Scott


> .discinfo                                            DISCINFO File
> eula.txt                                             Text Document
> GPL                                                 File
> RPM-GPG_KEY                                File
> RPM-GPG-KEY-beta                         File
> RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora                       File
> RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide           File
> RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test                File
> RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide                    File
> TRANS.TBL                                      TBL File
>  
> Since the first disc does not appear to be a bootable cd I have
> created the restore and boot cd's to boot up RecHat.    However when I
> reboot with either CD I get to the installation window asking for the
> Fedora Core CD and get the following message:
> "The Fedora Core CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives.  Please
> insert the Fedora Core CD and press OK to retry."
>  
> I have tried putting in all 4 of my RedHat CD's to no avail, and have
> even tried leaving my boot and restore CD's in the drive without any
> luck either.   I have even tried updating the tbl file to include the
> directory/path to point to the CD in the drive which didn't work
> either.    As I am new to LINUX administration any help would be
> appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Ron
>  
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