Quick question on installing FC4 from CD...

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:49, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> If thats the case, then when you mount the cd to look at it, do you
>> see the install tree, or a single file whose name is the same as the
>> .iso you made it from.  In the latter case you burnt it wrong, you
>> want to 'burn an image' in your burner software.
>
>Yes, I see the install tree, which makes me fully believe that it is the
>burn, not the computer itself, which does look for the CD-rom first. SO,
>given that I have the basic Sonic Record Now! version 7.3 included in my
>OS from Microso..well, you know. ;-) Is there any way to do this on
> Linux? Of course. Enlighten me, gurus...never done it before,
> obviously.

Well, neither am I for that matter.  But that leads back to my first
query regarding the settings in the bios.  The cdrom drive should be set
as the 1st or 2nd choice of boot device, followed by the hard drive as
the 2nd or 3rd device.

But, you might want to check the md5sum of the burnt cd just for grins.

HTH

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