cant install from dvd

[David Klose]

Ill be trying all the methods.
Thanks for your time

 --- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca>
escribió: 
> David Klose wrote:
> > Yes, i have one cdrw drive and this dvdrw drive.
> > The cd drive is set as primary slave, while the
> dvd is
> > set as secondary master.
> 
> Than the problem is with your BIOS (basically, this
> means you will not 
> be able to boot anything from your DVD), and
> solution is dependent on 
> the type of BIOS you have in your PC.
> 
> Some things to try.  Note that these are only hints,
> every BIOS is 
> different.  Your BIOS might support some of this
> features/tricks, or it 
> might not support any of them.  In later case, the
> only way to go would 
> be to rewire your PC (swap CD/RW drive and DVD/RW
> drive, or temporarely 
> remove CD/RW drive).  Well, there's one more trick
> in this case that 
> should work, at the very end of this email.
> 
> Some BIOSes will scan all CD-ROM/DVD devices and
> boot from first that 
> contains bootable CD (if any).  Obviously, your BIOS
> is not doing this.
> 
> On some BIOSes, it is possible to specify which
> CD-ROM/DVD to use for 
> booting (go to boot options, select line that says
> 'CD-ROM' or something 
> similar, press enter, you get the list of CD-ROM/DVD
> devices, select 
> your DVD).
> 
> On some BIOSes, if you press 'ESC' key during memory
> test (to abort 
> memory tests), you will be prompted with list of all
> potentially 
> bootable devices (you should see at least floppy,
> all disk drives, and 
> all CD-ROM/DVD drives on this list), and you will be
> able to choose from 
> wich to boot (simply select your DVD from the list).
>  You might need to 
> disable "fast boot", "skip POST" or any similar
> option in BIOS to make 
> it do memory test that will last long enough for you
> to have time to 
> press ESC (sometimes with those options enabled,
> BIOS doesn't perform 
> memory test, or it is so fast that you don't have
> time to press ESC).
> 
> If none of the above tricks work with your BIOS
> (meaning it is able to 
> boot only from first CD/DVD drive it finds), I'm
> affraid rewiring is 
> (almost) the only option.  Almost, because there's
> one more trick you 
> can try.  If you don't want to rewire, you might try
> downloading Rescue 
> CD (80MB or so ISO image) and burning it to CD. 
> Place it in your CD-ROM 
> drive.  Place install DVD into DVD drive.  Boot from
> Rescue CD.  On 
> first boot prompt (as soon as CD is booted and you
> get Fedora splash 
> screen) type "linux askmethod".  Boot loader will
> load Linux kernel and 
> start Anaconda installer (just the same as if you
> booted from install 
> DVD).  At one point during install it will ask you
> from where do you 
> want to install (the "askmethod" option).  Choose
> your DVD drive.
> 
> -- 
> Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca>   
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