Intalling fedora

[Sean Bruno]

I did a simple trick to get mine to install.

Boot of the FC1 first cd.  When you get "syslinux" started, switch to
the 1st CD of FC2.

That should do the trick.

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 15:13, Nigel wrote:
> Well I initially downloaded what was in the FC "1/" folder and I'm
> having no luck with that either. I had tried the boot.iso before
> (several times on several machines) for the heck of it and that led me
> through everything until it asked for the real installation CDs. That's
> where the machine says that the (singular I might add) Fedora Core CD
> cannot be found. I've also tried to download from another source...the
> first CD anyway. 
> 
> As far as I know I can't execute the md5sum check on my machine because
> I am unable (networking would be unnecessarily complex) to access the
> internet via my Linux OS (which is part of the reason I'm migrating to
> Fedora) and thus am forced to download on XP.
> 
> Should I just keep downloading? I just need to know I'm not trying to
> jam two puzzle pieces together at random (at least they're both from the
> same "box" haha).
> 
> The quick response was greatly appreciated Wayne.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Wayne
> Steenburg
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:42 PM
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Intalling fedora
> 
> On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 15:39 -0700, ll wrote:
> > I'm a newbie to operating system installation in general
> > I have a Intel 2Ghz that does not support either the I386 (system
> > doesn't read the CDs) or the x86_64 ("long" doesn't work on my cpu)
> > distributions.
> > Do you have any idea how or if I can get a distribution that would
> work?
> >  
> > Thanks
> > Nigel
> 
> If by "doesn't read the CDs" you mean you can't boot from the first CD,
> this is a known issue with test2.  You can either boot from the first CD
> of test1 and switch, or you can download boot.iso from the download
> server under the /iso directory. The i386 version supports all 32 bit
> Intel/AMD chips. Also check the md5 sum of your iso's before burning and
> do the media check during install to make sure your disks are good.
> Good luck!
> 
> Wayne Steenburg
> 
> 
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