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Ok....I am starting to get frustarted! I am trying to install Linux for the first time ever, and can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. I have downloaded and burned to CD's, the 3 disk images for RedHat's version 9.0. I have created a boot disk, that gets me into the initial setup screens (where I select language, keyboard, etc..). Then when I select to install it from theCD ROM, it tells me it can't find the RedHat CD.
I currently run Windows XP, and have created a partition with Partition Magic. Everything looks fine with the partition, as far as I can tell. When I start the system I have it setup so that I can select wether or not to boot to Linux, or XP. If I choose Linux, it stalls out on a screen that says "now loading linux" (or something like that). I have been unsuccessful at getting help from RedHats installation manual.
I appreciate any help you can give me. If you need any more details, please feel free to ask. Thanks
When you look at the CD in windows, do you see a bunch of files and directories? If you see only a single file named something.iso, you burned the CD incorrectly.
You need to burn the .iso file as a CD Image. To do this in Nero, use File -> CD Image (from memory, they may have changed the wording). It will then give you a file picker for the cd image file, choose the ISO.
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