[richsong]

I downloaded the latest version of Fedora 6 (3.3 Gb corrected) and recorded it to a DVD. The recording was successful, according to Nero. I have set my bios so that the "boot from CD" option is first, followed by "boot from hard drive". The computer always checks the CD and bypasses it to boot from the hard drive into Windows XP. I have tried setting the bios to boot ONLY from a CD but I just keep getting "Press F1 to retry", "press F2 to enter Setup".

I tried using a brand new copy of Ubuntu received directly from the Ubuntu distribution group and got the same result.

I have checked my bios version and it appears to be the current available version.

I was able to boot the Ubuntu disc a few months ago and I had previously (over 6 months ago) installed Fedora 5 on a spare hard drive as an experiment. I have since deleted the version 5 partition but I want to install version 6 now.

My system is a Dell 4800, Pentium 4 with 1054 Mb memory.

Any suggestions will sure be appreciated.

[MikeTbob]

Originally Posted by richsong

I downloaded the latest version of Fedora 6 (3.3 Mb) .

Fedora 6 is a five CD download, at 650MB per CD, I think maybe you didn't actually download Fedora.
Try this link.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...re/6/i386/iso/

[richsong]

Although there are 5 image file downloads for Fedora 6, there is also one large DVD image file download that contains all of the needed files. That is the one I am using. I also downloaded the 5 images files but when I burned the "disc-1" image, that would not boot either.

I feel certain the problem is not with the downloads (the checksums were all correct) but with my computer. I am hoping someone can give me an idea of what or where to check. I am thinking there may be a problem with the bios or, possibly, a missing or corrupt driver but I just do not know.

[MikeTbob]

I thought maybe you had a bad download because your file size posted as 3.3 MB, maybe you meant 3.3GB

They must be burned as ISO images and not just a data disk.
With most Cd burning software in windows, you can just right click on an ISO image and select burn to disk.

[cyberinstru]

Hey,

While burning the disk image, make sure that you are burning the disk as a bootable disk.

Usually bios reads only the first 512 bytes of your disk to confirm if it is bootable.