hi,
I have downloaded Fedora core 5 DVD.iso but it is not boot able !! shall I do anything to make it bootable?
thanks

Well check your BIOS to see if your DVD device is first in bootorder.
Make sure you burned the ISO-file with an burningsuite that has support for burning ISO on DVD and make sure your device can even boot from DVD.

The DVD ISO is absolutely bootable so follow the steps in the previous post. You need to burn the contents of the ISO file to a DVD, not the ISO file itself, i.e. once you are finished you wind up with a DVD that has this directory listing:

Fedora, images, isolinux, repodata, stylesheet-images, (assorted other files)

NOT:

FC-5-i386-DVD.iso

If all you have on your DVD is the one file, FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, then you did not burn the DVD correctly, you dragged the .iso file onto your layout, you did not burn the DVD from the iso, which gives you a DVD with the directories I listed above.

Once you have this DVD go into your BIOS and ensure that you have selected the CD-ROM drive as the primary boot device.

wow,I'm trying to keep up.

it is the first time for me in the forum
and i read about linux and i want to install on my hard .......... but i have some problems with installation
when i run graphic mode my screen tell me out of frequency and screen turn off and i shouid make restart again then i follow instruction and i type this command and i do not know what it mean ( linux lowre) and i enter to installation and i complete it and when i restart my computer and when i enter to linux give me dos screen and give informations and on the right side give me ok then my screen turned off not my computer and again i should restart again till i gave up
and the scond problem when i want to remove linux give me boot loader and i can not enter to my windows again as i set up windows on drive c
then i should to set up windows again
and can u tell me what type of linux should i install on my computer as i have knoppix and red hat core 1 and mandriva-one-2007-free-gnome and Ubuntu 6.06 .
and these are my description to my computer ;
hard 80 GB
ram 256
processor 2.4 intel celeron
s3 pro savage ddr built in
monitor LG 17
ASUS mother board

I just built a computer. Intel DG965WHMK (media board)Cedar mill Celeron(356 3.33GHz) (2WD 250 caviar Sata II HDDs)(2 Pioneer DVD burners)(2GB kingston 667MHz RAM) I installed XP MCE2005 on a 40 GB partition on Drive 0. The drives are configured as IDE, No RAID just volume storage. The BIOS boot order is (allegedly) set to; DVD 1, DVD 2, Floppy, then HDD. I have several Linux Distro sets, all of which have been hashed and verified after burning. Most of them simply hang after I hit <enter> to install in GUI. Ubuntu is unsuccessful at booting a live session on the machine. SUSE 10.0 tells me something like "Cool computer dude, did you want to install a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit machine?" I tell it yes, press <enter>, then it hangs. Now,what I really wanted to install is Fedora Core 6. I downloaded the x86_64 version 'n everthin'. When I try to install that it tells me I can't boot from the CD drive, then asks for a scsi driver or raid driver (Loooong list). I tried unplugging the second HDD so as not to confuse the issue, didn't help. The Intel Mobo only has 1 IDE channel (connector) which is being used for the 2 DVD drives. The HDDs are hooked to SATA 0 & SATA 1. I feel like I'm missing some subtlety. Please, show me the error of my ways.

Do you have a setting called "Plug and Play OS" in your BIOS?

If so, set it to NO.

Plug optical drives into regular IDE controllers not additional controllers like RAID.

I installed Xandros 4 Home Premium on a Toshiba Satellite A135-S2276, I set it as dual boot with Vista. Vista works fine, but when I boot Xandros it gets as far as Detecting Hardware and feezes up. I have these same Operating Systems on another computer and it works fine. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

hey, i need some help installing linux on my 1998 toshiba 2060cds. i dont know why but when i boot with the ubuntu 7.0 cd,
it loads fora very long time and then just goes to this white screen with a curser and just stays there forever and i cant seem to figure out why. can somone please help me ?

what is the gain on this duo?
is this duo for gamers or is to improve pc performance?
I have XP Profesional instaled on my laptop and also have a copy of Linux simplymepis version 3.4 is this version good?
or
where can I download a Linux version that is good for this dual boot?

Thanks

can any1 help me hw to go ant installing linux on my computer????????
which version and how to install in and software i need????

i want to install redhat, when i press ENTER to start the installation, boot screen is came and the last cmd is BUS IS 0. what can i do. and what is the problem

gr8 post, im looking to dual boot my rig, thanks !!!!!

Mandrake may be what you want, but if it doesn't work, I would suggest using Ubuntu 8.10 instead. I have personally used it, and it is a very good operating system.

I like to use a virtual machine program when trying a new os. I use vmware or something of that nature first to decide if i like the distro. It allows me to run a "virtually" endless number of os' at the same time on my favorite os. If i use my main computer, it runs on a small bare bones version of linux so that i may control all of the hardware/processor usage at once. once i install that on a blank pc, i install my virtual machine and run my new operating systems on that. Whenever i find a new linux or another alternative i try it first in a safe environment so that i can track what processor and memory needs the gui may need access too. From there it allows me to tweak the distro for whatever computer i will be running.

The virtual machines allow you to "snapshot" a state to start from at anytime so that you can make adjustments and always fall back to a controlled state so that nothing is ever damaged

This is a great point you make and absolutely what I do now-a-days instead of dual booting.

If you're a Windows user and you're looking to try out Linux, the easiest way is to go is Ubuntu since they have a Windows installer called Wubi. If you're interested, you can get it here: http://wubi-installer.org/

To svtcobra for your PII 400 try Puppy Linux 4.3.

This thread is pretty old, things have significantly changed in the Linux installation world since this thread was created. It should probably be unstickied, it would be if someone would write a modern replacement to this.