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I've currently got Windows Vista. I tried to download Linux Fedora, and I get a message saying "Windows cannot open this file. To open this file, Windows needs to know what program you want to use to open it."
Then I get the option to "use the web service to find the correct program," but I get "page cannot be found" when I try that. My other choice is to "Select a program from a list of installed programs," but I don't know what to do there either.
Obviously, I'm a complete novice with no idea what I'm doing. Thanks for your help!
well, I installed FEdora 8 on a virtual machine, what i recommend you to do is the following:
Download Vmware WorkStation, not virtual PC.
Follow the instructions to create a virtual machine and a HD.
Then try to install ur Fedora Distro on the virtual machine.
Use Nero or something similar to burn the image to a disk and boot it. Note that you have to burn it as an image and not just copy the file across (the latter won't boot)
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