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I've just finished burning the 3 iso's i downloaded to cd

When i reboot my pc it jus act as if theres no cd's in the drive and continues to my os selection LILO

The wierd thing is my Mandrake 9.1 cd's (which were also downloaded) work fine

I;ve reburnt the cd several times now and still i cant seem to get it to boot the cd

My system doesnt have a floopy drive so i cant create a boot disk

Any ideas - is there anyway of putting a boot floopy data on cd and get into it tht way

i current have 2 drives dvd & Cdrw drive ???

TIA

Scott

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Use a program like Nero and create a bootable cd, it takes the image file for a floppy and creates it on a cd .., you should do a check-sum on the iso files to make sure they are complete before burning them .. still worth checking now though to make sure they were

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This problem has been mentioned before in these forums. Try making a boot floppy in Windows or use the second CD to boot from CD-ROM. Then again, I wouldn't install this version if I were you because it is full of bugs such as NVidia drivers not working (well some can, anyway), font installer malfunctioning, and some of the updates will cause your system to stall. Also, the installation interface is horribly slow. Try using Fedora or Slackware instead. :)

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As already mentioned, you should try booting off of CD 2. This worked for me.

OT: Fedora Core 2 is a bitch to boot, I ended using my FC1 disc to get to the grub screen and then swap disc 1 back in and hit return.

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What? I don't know what tree you guys are barking, concerning Fedora 2 Test 1 not booting from CD-ROM because I did not have any troubles, for sure! Must be corrupted ISO images or something.

Or did you mean Test 2, which was release quite recently?

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Well i eventually got it installed .... although a little problematic - my mandrake 9.1 build seems to have much better hardware support - could barely get anything working at all on 10 :( Usb was jus totally dead my audigy card (which is also supposidly supported didnt work) etcetcetc

*Thinks they have really messed up version 10*

I have the Fedora core 1 on dvd - 5~6 Iso's i think so when i get a chance i'll burn those and have a go!

Shame really that linux a more restrictive hardware support (my system only 4 months old seems to have quite a lot of trouble with linux mainly cause hardware manufactures are up microsofts rear end and have decided not to release drivers!!!!)

Thanks anyway

Scott

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Okay this may be wrong but go to the BIOS screen and under Boot or something not sure and there should be somethign like "Boot Priority" and then change it so ur CD ROM has a higher priority then hard drives

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Theres no boot prioty on my bios but its set to boot from cd-rom first -

Please i aint tht stupid - i've tried all the usual trouble shootin stuff - i think its jus a dodgy iso i have!

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Theres no boot prioty on my bios but its set to boot from cd-rom first -

Please i aint tht stupid - i've tried all the usual trouble shootin stuff - i think its jus a dodgy iso i have!

If you suspect a bum .iso, have you tried an md5sum, like randomnut suggested? That will nail it down for sure if your downloaded .iso is good before you burn, and you can use it on the CD (post-burn) to verify that it reads off the CD just as it should. :)

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yeh the md5sums match up fine! so a little confused as why it didnt boot - doesnt matter now i created a boot cdrom and it installed fine.... although theres a lot of hardware driver issues :(

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There is a known problem with the MandrakeLinux 10.0 Community Installation Disks.

The First CD is not bootable, but DrakX is on the disk and the disk is useable.

Put CD 2 in the CD-ROM drive, that CD will boot the image. It will ask you to confirm what disk you want to boot from. Put CD 1 in the drive and when the drive is ready (i.e., the lights stop blinking if yours is like my DVD-ROM drive), choose OK on boot from CD. DrakX will start and installation will continue as normal.

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