New Dell Inspiron 9400: From Vista to Fedora/Vista.

[Nat Gross]

On 5/8/07, stan <stanl at cox.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007 21:18:49 -0400
> "Nat Gross" <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/7/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 20:40 -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> > > > And....I just realized that the FC6 DVD is not bootable????
> > >
> > > No, that's not true.  The FC6 DVD is bootable.  The only gotcha is
> > > that on 32-bit machines, both the CD and DVD will install the 586
> > > kernel on 686 machines.  Fix by "yum install kernel-i686"
> > >
> > > > On my other machines I used yum to go from FC 5 to FC 6, and when
> > > > I went from FC 4 To FC 5 I used the image on disk. This is the
> > > > first time I actually burned the image to DVD. But... NO BOOT? Do
> > > > I need the first FC 6 CD to boot?
> > >
> > > If you're sure you're using a DVD drive and not a CD drive, then
> > > your burn was bad and you should retry it.
> > It's a dvd drive, I guess I need to reburn.
> > thanks
> > nat
> >
> Burn it at a very low speed.  I had the same problem when I allowed it
> to burn at whatever speed it wanted.  I used 4x on a 16x drive and it
> booted fine after that.
>
Oddly enough I was using the new laptop with native Vista to burn the
FC-6 dvd, and regardless of speed/modes (wasted a few dvd's) it did
NOT boot. BUT, when I used Roxio (installed by Dell on Vista) to burn
it, it worked like a champ.

Thanks
nat