Trouble booting FC5 from DVD

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Mar 25 17:31:45 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:23 -0500, Fred Vachon wrote:
> Hi - I have downloaded via bittorrent FC-5-i386-DVD.iso and burnt image
> on DVD using K3b.  But I am unable to boot from the DVD when I restart
> my computer.  I tried burning the boot.iso image to CD but couldn't get
> that to boot into FC5 either.  It boots into FC4 which is what I am
> currently running.  I installed FC4 by booting off the DVD but can't get
> it to boot from the FC5 DVD.  Any ideas much appreciated.  Thanks - fred

Did you burn it as an image or as a file (are there mutliple files and
directories on the disk, or just one)?

Is your machine configured to boot from CD/DVD? Do you have any other
bootable CDs/DVDs you can try?

Paul.





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