Re: Help installing from boot.iso

From: Paul Lutus (nospam_at_nosite.zzz)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:21:31 -0700

AlanS wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have 2 dvd's here (from book and mag) of Fedora Core 2 and
> Suse Pers. 9.1 that I've been trying to install forever.
> My bios is set to boot from cd-rom, but for whatever
> reason, it won't boot on my dvd-rom. I've tried several configs
> on my ide devices but still won't boot. So I burned
> the boot.iso (or the smrbtmgr.iso) found in the dvd's into cd-r so I'll
> just boot that on my cd. It booted, but I'm stuck with the
> message from the screen: [DR-DOS}A:/
>
> or something like that. What to do next when you get that
> prompt?

Here are some things that were inadvertently left out of your message:

1. Where you got the ISO files.
2. Whether you know how to burn CDs or DVDs.
3. What method you used to burn the CDs or DVDs.
4. Whether you checked the original ISO files against their
   published md5sums.
5. Whether you checked the burned CDs and DVDs against their
   published md5sums.
6. How you went about performing your installation.
7. What kind of computer you have.
8. How much RAM you have.
9. How much HDD free space you have.
10. Whether you have ever successfully installed Linux before.

Apart from these minor omissions, a very informative post. 

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

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