Cannot install Fedora C3 from cd-roms

[Jim Cornette]

Olivier Delaporte wrote:

> Hello
>  
> I am trying to install Fedora C3 on a DELL Optiplex gx240 (P4 512Mb 
> 20Gb). So I downloaded the four iso files from 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com 
> <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/>, burned four cd-roms with the ISO 
> file system (roxio v5 on win2k). The pc tries to boot from the cd-rom 
> drive but does not find anything on the cd-rom to boot from. What 
> steps am I missing? The hard disk is empty. What am I doing wrong or 
> not doing at all?
>  
> Thank you
>  

The ISO images are raw data files that represent the 600 mb or so CDROMs 
that you are wanting. Did you burn the isos with a setting similar to 
burn from image? If you have another computer that you can view the 
burned CDs in, do they contain one big file or are they full of 
directories and files, which you want to achieve?

I installed successfully on a Dell Optiplex gx270, so the computer you 
are using has a chance to work with FC3.

I believe the Dell BIOS has the default boot set to floppy, harddrive, 
then CDROM. You might want to set it to boot from floppy first, cdrom 
second, then hard disk. There might be something on the disk that Dell 
hangs on while trying to boot a disk with no real information.

Also, since you are using a hard disk with no information, you might 
want to setup the disk using a dos/windows startup disk and use fdisk to 
setup a partition, then remove it during the installation of FC3. The 
reason I mentioned this is that I had to do something similar to get a 
brand new disk to be partitionable for Linux. Setting up a partition 
scheme using the other OS cleared the problem.

Jim