Core 4 installation on an old Gateway

[H Q]

Thanks for your letter.  I'm currently using some silver TDK CD-R media 
which was just purchased.  I assumed it would be satisfactory.  They were 
burned at 8X.  I use a newer Dell to download and image the ISO's onto the 
CD's.

I will try 4X, and then try to boot from the Gateway CD-ROM again.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated --incidentally, my old Gateway 
for some reason is not giving me the dual boot screen for FreeBSD/Windows 
98, either.  (This happened prior to any Fedora Linux installation).  I was 
hoping to just use the existing 5 GB of FreeBSD "unused space" on the 
non-primary partition, and install Linux over it.

H.

>From: Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>,For users of Fedora Core releases 
><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Core 4 installation on an old Gateway
>Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:03:16 -0700
>
>On 7/17/05, H Q <ecomeasurement at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I burned the ISO images to CD, and they worked on my newer machine, but 
>the
> > old Gateway would not read them off its CD-ROM drive.  I tried making 
>the
> > boot diskette (changing the boot sequence accordingly), but that 
>wouldn't
> > work on either machine ("boot failed")
> >
> > I tried changing the default boot sequence on the Gateway to an external 
>RW
> > CD drive, but none of the options in the BIOS seemed to refer to the
> > external drive.  I tried FLOPTICAL, SCSI device, with no luck.
> >
> > The CD-ROM on the Gateway *did* read the ISO boot from a previous 
>FreeBSD
> > distribution, and still does, so it may not be the drive itself.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > H.
> >
>
>Have you tried using different media (gold vs silver colored disc or
>different brand/manufacturer) and burning the image at a lower speed
>(4X)?
>
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