Need help with F7 install--just to get the boot DVD to work

[Karl Larsen]

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

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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