Fedora 4 on Dell Dimension 4300

meb3v · 05-15-2006, 05:42 PM

Hi, I'm trying to install Fedora Core 4. I have all of the ISO images mounted to seperate disks. When I edit my system BIOS to boot from the IDE CD-ROM device first my system is failing to recognize the Fedora disk in the CD-ROM and simply boots Windows XP.

daihard · 05-15-2006, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by meb3v

Hi, I'm trying to install Fedora Core 4. I have all of the ISO images mounted to seperate disks. When I edit my system BIOS to boot from the IDE CD-ROM device first my system is failing to recognize the Fedora disk in the CD-ROM and simply boots Windows XP.

I would suspect that the ISO image is corrupt. Did you run any type of cheksum to make sure the downloaded ISO images were correct?

meb3v · 05-15-2006, 06:43 PM

Is there any difference between SRPMS and the regular downloads available at redhatlinux.com?

spooon · 05-15-2006, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by meb3v

Is there any difference between SRPMS and the regular downloads available at redhatlinux.com?

Yes. SRPMS are not for installing; they are the source packages for when people want to rebuild everything.

meb3v · 05-15-2006, 06:58 PM

Thanks, this would explain all my troubles.