Creating a bootable fedora DVD disk

[JavaWannabe]

Hello all

I am trying to create a bootable DVD disk of Fedora. I am having trouble in doing this. I want to format the Hard drive and create a new file system.

I have downloaded the source cds for fedora12 AND fedorai386 downloads.

I have been trying to create a DVD burn with the Fedora12.iso extracted and then burned to DVD. This does not work.


I just want to be able to pop the DVD in and then start the install, and on any machine.


Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you in advance

[oz]

Follow the instructions found here for properly downloading the ISO files then burning them to disk as images.

[JavaWannabe]

Thank You for that information - that task was rather painfree once I was informed.

The path I was on in trying to get this task to work led me "I guess" to creating bootable images I suppose is the correct wording.

I read lots of material on this "the boot loading process" and still can not quite put the puzzle together.

As far as I understand is when the bios loads up if refers to the MBR to find out where to load an image or to a bootloader program.

Could anyone elaborate on this process. I am rather interested in how to do this, or a very informative link.

Thank you very much

[yancek]

As far as I understand is when the bios loads up if refers to the MBR to find out where to load an image or to a bootloader program.

When you set the boot priority in the BIOS to select booting first from CD Drive, USB, etc that is all on chipset on the mother board and does not involve master boot records or bootloaders. If you have the drive set to boot the harddrive and you have an operating system on the drive, after the BIOS does some checks it goes to the master boot record to look for boot code and then the bootloader code takes over.

Pretty oversimplified but there a lot of sites explaining it in detail.

HowStuffWorks "How BIOS Works"