Installing Fedora

[Paul Howarth]

Greg Viola wrote:
> I want to install fedora on a brand new P4 machine I just built myself 
> that has no OS .  I have a second machine running WIndows XP.  I 
> downloaded FC3-i386-disc1.iso to my XP system and then burned it to a 
> CD-ROM as a data file (using Nero).  Nero verified the burn.
>  
> When I try to boot from the CD, the P4 machine behaves as though its not 
> a bootable disk (reports "NO O/S").  I know the P4 machine will boot 
> from the CD because I've done that already (MAXTOR disk drive utilities 
> CD and an old Win/98 recovery disk both boot fine, for example).
>  
> What am I missing here?  Is there an RTFM I didn't do?

You "burned it to a CD-ROM as a data file". You need to burn it as an 
"image".

See 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/e-smith/docs/howto/CD_burning_howto.php3#AEN90

Paul.