Ok, maybe I should have posted this in the newbie section, since the problem shouldn't be a problem, but here it is;

I've got a Toshiba with Windows XP & two hard drives and I want to replace it with Fedora 8.0 which I just downloaded (i386 - which, according to the installation guide, should be the correct one). I burned it on a DVD without any problems. Now, when I enter BIOS I get four options to boot from, but none of them is Fedora? And it doesn't matter which one I choose, Windows just launches anyway?

Please help me, I'm about to get crazy!

/satunge

Are you saying that you have not yet installed Linux and cannot boot from the installation disc? If thats what you mean, then you need to configure your bios to boot from the cd/dvd device first, then hdd etc.

Are you sure you are talking about the bios? Looks to me like you are talking about your boot loader. Do what reddazz said. Or sometimes there is a button to select the drive to boot from (i.e. you press F8 while you see the ASUS picture to to select the drive to boot from on an ASUS bios). If I am reading this correctly then you are having trouble installing fedora, correct?

Yes, I think Reddazz got me right - I can't boot from the DVD, it doesn't matter if I select the CD/DVD-drive option or the Hard drive, or put them in reverse order, the same thing happens - windows launches?

Thanks for trying anyway ^_^
/s (sorry about the BIOS part btw)

Did you burn the disc as cd/dvd image. Many people make the mistake of burining the discs as normal data discs.

Hmm, since I didn't reflect over it I probably didn't. I'll try again! Thank you for the help & patience!

Lots of love
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Ok - I'm back! I burned another dvd, now with the .iso file and everything ran smoothly. The media check was OK, but then i just got the message "error" and th option "ok" when i was about to start. Then i just inserted the disc again and the installation started to runt without any problems and I was happy as a child when it finished and I just had to reboot. The reboot also worked fine, i got through the "Toshiba"-screen, the first blueish "Fedora"-screen, then a black screen with all the startup details shows, as everything starts up.

Then I get to a blue screen, and an "image" too large to be viewed with my screen, and "Hide Details" written at the upper left corner. The text in the box under is hard to read, but alters as in the screen before and, then for a nanosecond I can see a black screen with something like "Ferora 8.0" (Werewolf) and then the entire screen turns black and nothing happens, no matter what I do.

What on earth has gone wrong?
/s