[Gllug] Fedora Woes

['lesleyb']

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:20:46PM +0000, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> Since I run Red Hat at work it makes sense to run Fedora on
> my home laptop, a Dell Inspiron.
> 
> I downloaded the Fedora ISO file onto my laptop and then
> burnt it to a CD.
> 
> I set the boot options to use the DC first, but to no
> avail.  It always boots off the HDD.
> 
> Have I missed a stage somewhere?  Any suggestions from you
> experts out there gratefully received!
> 
IIRC you have to burn the CD as an ISO image for it to be 
bootable.  It is insufficient to simply burn the iso file
to CD.  

You don't say what you used to create the CD 
wodim or a GUI interface like K3b?

If you have any other known bootable CD try that with your
machine setup to confirm the machine will boot from CD.

Regards

L.
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