Booting from a CD Drive

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Mar 4 09:28:55 UTC 2005


Mitch Pratt wrote:
> I have a copy of Fedora Core 3 on CD with instructions to boot the PC 
> from the CD.   The Boot Drive for my PC is Drive A for floppy disks and 
> I cannot find any information as to how I can change the Boot Drive to 
> one that uses CD's.   It is suggested that I may have to change the BIOS 
> settings.   My computer is an Intel Pentium CPU 2.40 Ghz 496 MB RAM.

I'd have thought that a 2.40 Ghz machine was new enough to have booting 
from CD enabled by default. Have you tried putting the fisrt Fedora CD 
in the CD drive and rebooting the computer?

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Paul.




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