Where to get Fedora 8 CDs

[vamythguy]

On Jan 20, 2008 8:51 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at panet.co.yu> wrote:

> On Sunday 20 January 2008 02:56, Kam Leo wrote:
> > 2008/1/19 vamythguy <vamythguy at gmail.com>:
> > > I'm having the same issue - is it not possible to boot from the DVD?
> >
> > The F8 DVD is bootable. The drive on your system might not be able to
> > read the medium that you are using. If the medium you used is DVD-R or
> > DVD+RW switch to DVD+R.
>
> There is another possibility. Your drive may be of the kind that does read
> the
> dvd media, but *does not* boot from it. The easiest way out of this
> situation
> is to burn a rescue cd, start the installation, and then choose the option
> to
> install from dvd. The installer will then ask you to put the F8 dvd in the
> drive, and read it no problem, once it is already booted.
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
>
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I'll probably have to go this route.  It's a DVD+R iso burned using Roxio
that I can read just fine if I boot into linux from some other CD.
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