NUBIE to alternate OS world-Install

[Jeremy Hogan]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:03, Ian Desjarlais wrote:
> Weeks ago I downloaded the RH Linux 9 ISO's and was clueless.  Yesterday I
> downloaded and burned the three ISO;s for Fedora, and not much has changed... I
> have laptop running XP professional on a double partitioned HD (1/2 is XP, 1/2
> is unformatted)  I tried to boot off of the first ISO and nothing happend
> except windows booted.  I then tried imaging the boot floopy, but it was larger
> than 1.4 mb...it didn't fit.    I also have no clue how to run  a shell prompt
> to check the   MD5cheksumthing or other.  Here I now find myself asking for any
> help that peopel may give.  
> 
> IanD 

Ian,

Check that CDROM is bootable in your BIOS. Also, you may not have burned
the first ISO as 'bootable'.

--jeremy