Downloading Fedora to Windows

THUFIR HAWAT hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 13:53:50 UTC 2005


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:45:41 +0100, Robert Slade
<fedora at bathnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 09:28, Venkatesh Kannan wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > i decided 2 install Fedora n hav downloaded the four
> > ".iso" image files (for CDs) to my system.. now how do
> > i write these files on 2 CDs from windows? i mean
> > would it be correct to just write these files? i guess
> > not..
> >
> > cud anyone help pls??
> >
> > thnx in advance.. venky..
> 
> Venky,
> 
> Just writing the files to CD will not work, you need to burn them as iso
> images as they are an image of the CD.  Both Nero and Roxio CD creator
> has this option but the basic Windows one does not.
> 
> Try searching the mailing list archives, there has been a lot of mails
> on the subject.
> 
> Rob

you don't need to actually burn 4 cd's, you can type "linux askmethod"
at the install prompt and install from a hard drive.   in this case
you'd only need to burn the rescue cd.  HTH

Thufir




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