Problems installing Fedora Core 3

[Kam Leo]

On 5/4/05, Daniel Whalen <beeker at mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> I am having problems installing Fedora Core 3 on an old system I had laying
> around that I wanted to turn into a print server.
> 
> The computer in question is an old NEC Pentium MMX 266, and the problem I am
> running into is that it just won't seem to boot from the CD Rom drive
> (adjusted it in the bios), instead it seems to skip over my Fedora disc
> entirely.
> 
> I did a little bit of looking and found a program that was supposed to allow
> me to boot from a CD via my floppy drive called smart boot manager
> http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html but it just gave me a
> "non system disk" error when I started up with it in the floppy drive.
> 
> I think that because of the age of the system, it just does not support
> booting from CD rom (despite what the BIOS may indicate), and hopefully
> somebody here can point me in the direction of a program that will get the
> boot started from my floppy drive.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
> 
> Daniel Whalen
> beeker at mesanetworks.net
> 303.664.9976
> 

Obligatory list question:  Is your FC3-1 CD bootable on another system?

If the answer is no, then your CDs were not burned properly. You need
to burn the CD as an image.