Need help with F7 install--just to get the boot DVD to work
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Tue Jul 24 00:21:19 UTC 2007
Aldo Foot wrote:
>
> On 7/23/07, *Gilbert Sebenste* <sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu
> <mailto:sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> If anyone has any expertise on this, I'd greatly appreciate some
> answers.
>
> I'm about to blast away FC5 and do an install of FC7 (backing everything
> up first, of course). I downloaded nd then burned the F7 ISO to a DVD
> using RecordNow! Plus under Windows XP SP2 (it was the most
> convenient way
> to do this, sorry). Well, the ISO is on there and looks fine. But when I
> tested it this morning on a machine I need to upgrade, it skips
> right by
> the DVD and boots into FC5. The DVD player is a "DVD multi player", and
> "RW combo(tm)" drive. I am wondering:
>
> 1. My PC is 3 years old. Can it handle an ISO from DVD?
> 2. I burnt it as a data disc, just like I did the FC5 disks. Why
> isn't the
> OS loading from the DVD? AM I missing something?
>
> Second, let's assume that, for whatever reason, I can't use a DVD. What
> are my options to boot from a CD?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Gilbert
>
>
>
> CD/DVD writing help here.
>
> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html
>
> ~Aldo
>
I think you did what I did once. It is easy to put the file fc7.iso ON
the DVD rather than MAKE a DVD with it. Put your DVD in your FC5 and see
what it has....hi
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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