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[Rac 0]

i want to install fedora 3 but my computer doesn't boot on cd, is there anyway that i can make a boot floppy for fedora 3?

[Wicked101 0]

Your PC should be able to boot from CD, its a setting you need to change in the BIOS, when your PC starts up it says (press "Del" to enter BIOS), some PC's its "F2", "ESC" or "F10", bat anyway, you'll see it at startup. It will take you into the BIOS, there you should look for "BOOT Settings" or "Priority BOOT Devices", by default it should be:

1. A

2: Hard Drive

3. CD or DVD Drive

 

Change it to:

 

1. A

2: CD or DVD Drive

3. Hard Drive

 

Then you will be able to boot off CD (If the CD is bootable)

[Rac 0]

still doesn't work

[danleff 0]

Then most likely the cd is not bootable, if you set the bios correctly.

 

Did you burn the cd disks yourself?

 

If so, did you burn them as an iso image or data file?

 

A properly burned Fedora cd should have a bunch of directories and files on the cd.

 

Is you just see the iso file itself on the disk, then you did not burn the iso file as an image and it will not be bootable.

 

Are you using cdrw media or cd-r media?

 

What burning software are you using and at what speed did you burn the iso files? They need to be burned at a slow speed, such as 4X or 8X.