Newbie Questions

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy Brooks wrote:
> Thank you.
> 
> Let's say I copy Fedora to CDs and format the Windows computer I am using
> (it's a spare for 'learning').  Is CD #1 bootable or do I go in through DOS
> and install?
> 
> Is there a boot diskette (1.44) that I should have?

It is better if you do this on a machine *other* than
the one use for Net access, especially e-mail.

If you're unsure about all this, then I suggest you
try running for a while from a LiveCD. There is not
(AFAIK) a LiveCD for Fedora Core, but several are
available. I have used Knoppix, Kanotix, Puppy,
DSL and several others.

Step-by-step here is what you need to do...

0. Back up your machine as it is now.
1. Decide whether you want to retain the ability to
    boot Windows while running FC.
2. If the answer is "Yes, I want to dual-boot." then
    make room on that computer for FC. Make sure you
    can still boot Windows before continuing.
3. Download and burn all the FC4 discs to CDROMs.
    Be sure that when you are through you don't see
    a single file named SOME_FILE_NAME.ISO on there,
    but a whole bunch of files.
4. Boot your first CDROM. If your machine will not
    boot from the CDROM drive, then either you didn't
    make the CDROM properly, or you haven't enabled
    boot from CDROM drive in the BIOS, or your machine
    is too old to boot from CDROM or you have a hardware
    problem. If your machine is just too old, then I
    suggest using Smart Boot Manager, and boot from
    floppy. SBM will allow you then to boot from CDROM.
5. Go through the installation procedure.

Mike
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