Re: Problem installing Fedora 3 :(

From: Bruce Coryell (bcoryell_at_chesco.com)
Date: 04/23/05 

Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:15:56 GMT

Did you go into your CMOS setup and change your device boot order
settings accordingly. I set mine to A:, CD-ROM, hard disk 0, in that
order. Also, you should always use a CD-R disk for bootable media, not
CD-RW.

Broons Bane wrote:

> I downloaded the Fedora discs, as below and burned the fiat one to cd+rw
> (assuming that it would be ok to use that instead of cd+r)
>
> I have a windows xp home box with a blank partition ready to install Unix.
>
> When I boot the machine with the cd in, instead of booting from the cd rom
> it just goes straight to windows as normal. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in anticipation :)
>
>
> FC3-i386-disc1.iso (md5sum: db8c7254beeb4f6b891d1ed3f689b412)
> FC3-i386-disc2.iso (md5sum: 2c11674cf429fe570445afd9d5ff564e)
> FC3-i386-disc3.iso (md5sum: f88f6ab5947ca41f3cf31db04487279b)
> FC3-i386-disc4.iso (md5sum: 6331c00aa3e8c088cc365eeb7ef230ea)
>
>
>

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