Problems installing Fedora Core 3

[Kam Leo]

On 5/4/05, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Daniel Whalen wrote:
> > I am having problems installing Fedora Core 3 on an old system I had laying
> > around that I wanted to turn into a print server.
> >
> > The computer in question is an old NEC Pentium MMX 266, and the problem I am
> > running into is that it just won't seem to boot from the CD Rom drive
> > (adjusted it in the bios), instead it seems to skip over my Fedora disc
> > entirely.
> 
> A newer CD drive might help. Seriously.
> 
> >
> > I did a little bit of looking and found a program that was supposed to allow
> > me to boot from a CD via my floppy drive called smart boot manager
> > http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html but it just gave me a
> > "non system disk" error when I started up with it in the floppy drive.
> 
> A daughter (hear from my daughters when they have computer or car
> problems) had a problem like this. I said "dud floppy." After some
> discussion she binned it and tried a few more.
> 
> Later she reported binning quite a few.
> 
> >
> > I think that because of the age of the system, it just does not support
> > booting from CD rom (despite what the BIOS may indicate), and hopefully
> > somebody here can point me in the direction of a program that will get the
> > boot started from my floppy drive.
> 
> It might be the CD drive is a bit picky about CDs it reads, there were
> problems like this with early CDs and CD-R media. CD-RW is worse.
> 
> > --
> > No virus found in this outgoing message.
> > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 5/2/2005
> <takes note: when I release my next virus I must put a note like this in
> the emails it sends>
> 
> --
> 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> -- spambait
> 1aaaaaaa at computerdatasafe.com.au  Z1aaaaaaa at computerdatasafe.com.au
> Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/
> 

If your computer can boot from a Windows CD then it can also boot from
a Fedora CD.  Older CDROM drives may have difficulty reading media
burned at high speeds. This applies to CDR as well as CD-RW media. 
Try burning the .iso images at 4X or slower.