Installing Fedora

[Paul Howarth]

Samuel Lugo wrote:
> I'd like to install Fedora on one of my machines.  The
> hard drive that I want to use was formatted in XP but
> contains OS and no data.  What is it that I have to
> download exactly?  Is it only the FC3-i386-disc1.iso,
> FC3-i386-disc2.iso, FC3-i386-disc3.iso,
> FC3-i386-disc4.iso files that should be downloaded? 
> Or must I also download the SRPMS files also?  Once
> the files are burned onto a DVD, do I simply put the
> DVD in and boot the machine up?  Or do I need to
> download the boot.iso?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.  Thank you.

If you want to burn a DVD, you should download FC3-i386-DVD.iso. That 
will be all you need if your computer can boot from DVD-ROM.

Are you intending to overwrite the XP installation or have a dual-boot 
system with both operating systems installed?

Paul.