Fedora 7 Boot DVD not working

Hey all.

Ok, So i've been working on trying to install Fedora since summer started, but I've had troubles. I just got around to fixing my DVD burner and making the DVD boot disk (i386). Whenever I boot from the DVD though, it takes a second to react; the the word GRUB appears on the screen, and that's it... Nothing happens after... The DVD reader doesn't spin, and i can't type anything to the screen. Is this normal? Its almost as if my computer is frozen...

Someone please help! As a tech enthusiast / programmer I feel it as my duty to learn Linux! Could the .iso image be corrupted? I never got the sha1SUM program to finish checking it...

Thoughts? I"m at wits end with this thing...



Oh! sorry, almost forgot:
Dell Desktop computer, 2004: Intel Pentium 4 processor (2.8Ghz)
Three HDD: 20 GB laptop (back up files), 80 GB Windows XP, 80 GB Old linux (Friend gave it to me, to be used for Fedora 7 core)
DVD super-multi: producer - LG

Heeeeeelpppp!! T____________T;

That sounds like a bad disc image - especially if you couldn't finish checking it. Why not?

So I should just try re-downloading the DVD image?

Hey all.

Could the .iso image be corrupted? I never got the sha1SUM program to finish checking it.

Well why the heck not? All you need is the freeware version of this: http://www.accuhash.com/index.html (The pro version will write Sha1sum, you just need the reader)

I think if the .iso was corrupted, then the CD writing software would not have written it at all.

However, I do suggest a faulty disk. Try writing it again.

sounds just like a bios setup not set to read DVD's because it goes to grub when it doesn't know what OS to load.
cheers
Hynesy

its a bios problem? hmm....*checks*

In other news, I have a new Vista laptop (horrible) but I want to try and partition the 160 GB drive to put Linux there too. Would that be possible if I already got everything installed on the vista side?

Thanx alot hynesy :3

I could write a tutorial about how to do it and include photos or could point you to this site http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first that has much better tutorials then I could write. :p It is a tutorial for ubuntu but I still found it very useful for fedora as there is not to much different in setting up the install etc.
cheers
Hynesy

Aaaahhh, that was all i needed :33 I'm going to try and install linux on my laptop as well.

Oh, I figured that it was the .iso image, so i'm going to re-download and try again :) thanks everyone!

Good luck Tom ;)
Cheers
Hynesy :wave: