fedore core 3 install problem

TJ- · Dec 10, 2004, 06:31 AM

i am having trouble installing fedora 3, i have the four iso images on 4 cds. I put the first one in the drive reboot and it starts up in win xp. I then do it again changing the bios to boot the dvd rom drive first. Still boots to win xp. I then disable the secondary boot option so it had no choice but to boot up the dvd drive but it just comes up with. -- inset media or reconfigure bios-- so im guessing theres something wring with the iso image. Its a single file and ive been doing some reading and i think im spose to have a series of executeble files, but my nero6 will only let me burn a single iso image. The fedora was included with a edition of Australian Computer Mag..

question is how do i change the single file to a series of exe files, if that is the problem, if not what is the problem.. i tried burning a second copy and still the same..

sircave · Dec 10, 2004, 02:30 PM

The images on your four CDs are not recognized by the system, hence your booting into Win XP. You have to burn each ISO image to another set of CDs. Open Nero and let the new cd creation wizard run. Or run the wizard when Nero is fully opened. It should be an icon on the toolbar at the top of the program. When asked what kind of compilation to make, select other, not data or audio. The next panel should give you a choice of burning .ISO images. That is the option you need in order to create bootable and installable cd's. So you are going to need four more cd's and re-burn. I really hope this helps. I had the same exact problem for about two days. Let me know and good luck.

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 06:57 AM

damn man, the problem i had was i was running nero start smart, and not the official nero program, i have no idea why the cd creation wizard wont run, i cant even find a option to run it manually, i located a option under data, to burn a bootable disk, im guessing this is the right option.

ok i burned the first iso image. rebooted and its loading into a dos command promt..?

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
DR-DOS] A:\>

what the heck??
rebooting.. gunna see what other options i got in nero,

sircave · Dec 11, 2004, 07:19 AM

It should be, compile a new cd, other cd formats then create a cd from an image file. I don't know what version of Nero you are using, but what happens if you click on help? Do you have an option in the menu to click on "use the nero wizard?" And no, I don't live in Australia. USA California on PST time. I will check back later when I am at work. On my way now...........................

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sircave

It should be, compile a new cd, other cd formats then create a cd from an image file. I don't know what version of Nero you are using, but what happens if you click on help? Do you have an option in the menu to click on "use the nero wizard?" And no, I don't live in Australia. USA California on PST time. I will check back later when I am at work. On my way now...........................

ok.. firstly thanks for the help..
i am using nero 6, came free with the dvd burner.
clicking on help just gives me the online help (i dont have net acces on this comp yet) and faq, which i cant find anything useful in that.
When i click on the nero tab it just gives me the product versions and serial numbers.
I dont know if i change the "which recorder would you like to use" option from pioneer dvd r/w to image recorder cd r/w ... I will try and see if it works...
Here is a screen shot of the start smart nero and the nero program where u can burn a bootable disk

Im stumped and dont know what else to try if the create image doesnt work...

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 08:38 AM

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 08:48 AM

ok i tried that last option burning it to a image,,,, no go

i got 5 cds left,,, wasted 11 already......

sircave · Dec 11, 2004, 08:56 AM

I am wondering if the copy of the image you got out of that mag was good. Interesting. Do you have any friends that may have a different type of burning software? It sounds like Nero is not getting the job done and you will be making a trip to the media store before you get it right for some new cd's.

Quote:

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
DR-DOS] A:\>

On the other hand........this makes me suspect your cd's. I have only seen this on a Western Digital Recovery Tools CD for a new hard drive install / format hard disk. Is there a way you can double check those disks, download new ISO's or grab a different copy from somewhere / someone else?........BTW...I am at work now checking this forum every fifteen minutes or so. FYI.

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sircave

I am wondering if the copy of the image you got out of that mag was good. Interesting. Do you have any friends that may have a different type of burning software? It sounds like Nero is not getting the job done and you will be making a trip to the media store before you get it right for some new cd's.

On the other hand........this makes me suspect your cd's. I have only seen this on a Western Digital Recovery Tools CD for a new hard drive install / format hard disk. Is there a way you can double check those disks, download new ISO's or grab a different copy from somewhere / someone else?........BTW...I am at work now checking this forum every fifteen minutes or so. FYI.

i think im going bald man...
unfortunatly i dont know anyone with a computer... they all think im a nerd...

i doubt its the cds or the iso images, they downloaded fine...
the instruction included with the mag say exactly what you say... to burn an iso image but nero wont give me that option unless im blind ans hell...

looks like im screwd on this one... ill have to wait til i get adsl and download from the redhat site...

do u have fedora and where/how did you get it, if i download it from the site, ami going to have the same problems as i am having now..?

sircave · Dec 11, 2004, 09:25 AM

http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=64

I got mine from here. Before I burned the copys as an image, I was pulling my hair out because I just copied them from the hard drive to cd. Then I saw my mistake and burned them as Images to cd. I don't know what else to tell you dude. I am sorry.

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 09:35 AM

hahahaha... i cant do anything except laugh man.. kinda gets rid of some of the stress...

those iso images wont do me any good cause u still have to burn them to executable files...

hahahahaha...

thanks for all the help, i might have to see if i can get someone to burn me the exe files onto cd.....

hahahahahahah, the hair is already growing back....im gunna have to take my aggression out in far cry

sircave · Dec 11, 2004, 09:42 AM

If you got time to wait for what, a couple of days or so, however long it takes to get to you, I could mail you a copy of mine dude. At least to get you going. Send me an email with your information and let me know, if you want and I will send it the first thing tomorrow in the afternoon when I get out of class.

TJ- · Dec 11, 2004, 10:34 AM

check your private messages...

shaman9876 · Dec 15, 2004, 11:01 PM

Here is a link to a howto burn an iso in nero express. It has pictures of the whole process from begining to end. Hope this helps.

http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php?...le=burniso&p=1&

TJ- · Dec 16, 2004, 01:20 AM

wow thanks man, i cant believe how simple that was, i seriously spent over 2 hours trying to figure that out, Every article or instructions i got from websites or magazines was telling me something completly different... Im on the 2nd cd now, soon i will be in linux if everything goes well...

sircave if your reading this, disregard that email i sent you yesterday, looks like all is good in wonderland...

sircave · Dec 16, 2004, 08:49 AM

I am glad you were able to get your images burned. I just have the regular Nero 6. Good luck with Fedora.

TJ- · Dec 16, 2004, 08:58 AM

i wish i was running it....
partitioning is a really hard feat... seems my hard drive is one big partition it wont let me divide it into seperate partitions

sircave · Dec 16, 2004, 09:10 AM

Oh yeah....this is where it really gets good. You are going to need a third party partition manager. I used Partition Magic 8. That is the only way you are going to split that drive, unless............................................ .............................

You completely wipe that drive and install Fedora all by itself. If you are a newbie, which I am, I recommend against it. But other souls have been a lot braver and succeeded.

P.S. Is Farcry that good?

P.S.S. And whatever you do, BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!!!!!

TJ- · Dec 16, 2004, 09:14 AM

yea ummm i am a newbie as you can probably tell... partition manager 8 costs money right??? or is it free..?? i dont think i am brave enought to wip my hard drive either....

and yea far cry is awesome, i use to to let out some aggression, i like the multiplayer aswell.... you should ttry it

shaman9876 · Dec 16, 2004, 11:01 PM

You can try ranish it is free. Ranish also has a boot manager. I also believe fedora Core 3 has a built in partition software but I will need to check. I am at work at the moment. I don't believe partition magic is that expensive though. found it on pricewatch.com for $29 http://www.pcbase.com/cgi-bin/main.p...&dc=pricewatch

Hope this helps

http://www.ranish.com/part/

http://www.ranish.com/

http://www.ranish.com/part/dualboot.pdf

TJ- · Dec 16, 2004, 11:54 PM

i checked out those sites, seems you need a A: drive for that program...

i managed to get partition magic from a p2p but i ran into a new problem. Should i create a boot drive in win xp or in fedora core. Im pretty sure all i have to do is partition my drive into 2, then fedora will do the rest am i right..?

shaman9876 · Dec 17, 2004, 03:35 AM

Yes all you need to do is make room on the drive and it will install the grub boot loader and it will reconize both the linux and winxp partitions and allow you to boot from either.

My suggestion is to make the linux partition fat32 because linux does not play well with ntfs and windows does not reconize the linux partition. For with my experiance at which i am still very new at it. I really wanted to transfer files between the two os's and could not because linux does not write to ntfs unless you use experimental drivers which can cause write errors. Which is bad bad bad

TJ- · Dec 17, 2004, 03:46 AM

cool.. ill defrag and run the pm8 now... then hopefuuly linux will install with no probs... ill let u know the outcome........

Dec 10, 2004, 06:31 AM	#1
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	fedore core 3 install problem i am having trouble installing fedora 3, i have the four iso images on 4 cds. I put the first one in the drive reboot and it starts up in win xp. I then do it again changing the bios to boot the dvd rom drive first. Still boots to win xp. I then disable the secondary boot option so it had no choice but to boot up the dvd drive but it just comes up with. -- inset media or reconfigure bios-- so im guessing theres something wring with the iso image. Its a single file and ive been doing some reading and i think im spose to have a series of executeble files, but my nero6 will only let me burn a single iso image. The fedora was included with a edition of Australian Computer Mag.. question is how do i change the single file to a series of exe files, if that is the problem, if not what is the problem.. i tried burning a second copy and still the same.. __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 10, 2004, 02:30 PM	#2
sircave DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a Stone Cave Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	Choose a Different burning option in Nero The images on your four CDs are not recognized by the system, hence your booting into Win XP. You have to burn each ISO image to another set of CDs. Open Nero and let the new cd creation wizard run. Or run the wizard when Nero is fully opened. It should be an icon on the toolbar at the top of the program. When asked what kind of compilation to make, select other, not data or audio. The next panel should give you a choice of burning .ISO images. That is the option you need in order to create bootable and installable cd's. So you are going to need four more cd's and re-burn. I really hope this helps. I had the same exact problem for about two days. Let me know and good luck. __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 (Socket 754) 3200+ @ 2.21GHz, K8N Neo Platinum nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset V1.1, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI Sound card, Three Kingston 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Mem One Western Digital SATA 160GB HD, One Western Digital IDE 160GB HD, Nvidia FX5900XT-VTD128 AGP Video Card, Yamaha 24x10x40x Burner,Liteon 16x DVD±

Dec 11, 2004, 06:57 AM	Thread Starter #3
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	damn man, the problem i had was i was running nero start smart, and not the official nero program, i have no idea why the cd creation wizard wont run, i cant even find a option to run it manually, i located a option under data, to burn a bootable disk, im guessing this is the right option. ok i burned the first iso image. rebooted and its loading into a dos command promt..? Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 DR-DOS] A:\> what the heck?? rebooting.. gunna see what other options i got in nero, __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 11, 2004, 07:19 AM	#4
sircave DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a Stone Cave Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	It should be, compile a new cd, other cd formats then create a cd from an image file. I don't know what version of Nero you are using, but what happens if you click on help? Do you have an option in the menu to click on "use the nero wizard?" And no, I don't live in Australia. USA California on PST time. I will check back later when I am at work. On my way now........................... __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 (Socket 754) 3200+ @ 2.21GHz, K8N Neo Platinum nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset V1.1, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI Sound card, Three Kingston 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Mem One Western Digital SATA 160GB HD, One Western Digital IDE 160GB HD, Nvidia FX5900XT-VTD128 AGP Video Card, Yamaha 24x10x40x Burner,Liteon 16x DVD±

Dec 11, 2004, 08:38 AM	Thread Starter #6
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Dec 11, 2004, 08:48 AM	Thread Starter #7
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	ok i tried that last option burning it to a image,,,, no go i got 5 cds left,,, wasted 11 already...... __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 11, 2004, 09:25 AM	#10
sircave DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a Stone Cave Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=64 I got mine from here. Before I burned the copys as an image, I was pulling my hair out because I just copied them from the hard drive to cd. Then I saw my mistake and burned them as Images to cd. I don't know what else to tell you dude. I am sorry. __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 (Socket 754) 3200+ @ 2.21GHz, K8N Neo Platinum nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset V1.1, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI Sound card, Three Kingston 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Mem One Western Digital SATA 160GB HD, One Western Digital IDE 160GB HD, Nvidia FX5900XT-VTD128 AGP Video Card, Yamaha 24x10x40x Burner,Liteon 16x DVD±

Dec 11, 2004, 09:35 AM	Thread Starter #11
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	hahahaha... i cant do anything except laugh man.. kinda gets rid of some of the stress... those iso images wont do me any good cause u still have to burn them to executable files... hahahahaha... thanks for all the help, i might have to see if i can get someone to burn me the exe files onto cd..... hahahahahahah, the hair is already growing back....im gunna have to take my aggression out in far cry __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 11, 2004, 09:42 AM	#12
sircave DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a Stone Cave Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	If you got time to wait for what, a couple of days or so, however long it takes to get to you, I could mail you a copy of mine dude. At least to get you going. Send me an email with your information and let me know, if you want and I will send it the first thing tomorrow in the afternoon when I get out of class. __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 (Socket 754) 3200+ @ 2.21GHz, K8N Neo Platinum nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset V1.1, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI Sound card, Three Kingston 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Mem One Western Digital SATA 160GB HD, One Western Digital IDE 160GB HD, Nvidia FX5900XT-VTD128 AGP Video Card, Yamaha 24x10x40x Burner,Liteon 16x DVD±

Dec 11, 2004, 10:34 AM	Thread Starter #13
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	check your private messages... __________________ new sig comming soon Last edited by battleaxe187; Dec 11, 2004 at 10:40 AM.

Dec 15, 2004, 11:01 PM	#14
shaman9876 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA, WI Posts: 80 Rep Power: 62 System Specs	Here is a link to a howto burn an iso in nero express. It has pictures of the whole process from begining to end. Hope this helps. http://www.iceteks.com/articles.php?...le=burniso&p=1&

Dec 16, 2004, 01:20 AM	Thread Starter #15
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	wow thanks man, i cant believe how simple that was, i seriously spent over 2 hours trying to figure that out, Every article or instructions i got from websites or magazines was telling me something completly different... Im on the 2nd cd now, soon i will be in linux if everything goes well... sircave if your reading this, disregard that email i sent you yesterday, looks like all is good in wonderland... __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 16, 2004, 08:49 AM	#16
sircave DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a Stone Cave Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	I am glad you were able to get your images burned. I just have the regular Nero 6. Good luck with Fedora. __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 (Socket 754) 3200+ @ 2.21GHz, K8N Neo Platinum nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset V1.1, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI Sound card, Three Kingston 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Mem One Western Digital SATA 160GB HD, One Western Digital IDE 160GB HD, Nvidia FX5900XT-VTD128 AGP Video Card, Yamaha 24x10x40x Burner,Liteon 16x DVD±

Dec 16, 2004, 08:58 AM	Thread Starter #17
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	i wish i was running it.... partitioning is a really hard feat... seems my hard drive is one big partition it wont let me divide it into seperate partitions __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 16, 2004, 09:10 AM	#18
sircave DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In a Stone Cave Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	Oh yeah....this is where it really gets good. You are going to need a third party partition manager. I used Partition Magic 8. That is the only way you are going to split that drive, unless............................................ ............................. You completely wipe that drive and install Fedora all by itself. If you are a newbie, which I am, I recommend against it. But other souls have been a lot braver and succeeded. P.S. Is Farcry that good? P.S.S. And whatever you do, BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!!!!! __________________ Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 64-bit AMD® Athlon™ 64 (Socket 754) 3200+ @ 2.21GHz, K8N Neo Platinum nVIDIA® nForce3 250Gb Chipset V1.1, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI Sound card, Three Kingston 512MB DDR400 PC3200 Mem One Western Digital SATA 160GB HD, One Western Digital IDE 160GB HD, Nvidia FX5900XT-VTD128 AGP Video Card, Yamaha 24x10x40x Burner,Liteon 16x DVD± Last edited by sircave; Dec 16, 2004 at 09:17 AM. Reason: To add question and more infomation.

Dec 16, 2004, 09:14 AM	Thread Starter #19
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	yea ummm i am a newbie as you can probably tell... partition manager 8 costs money right??? or is it free..?? i dont think i am brave enought to wip my hard drive either.... and yea far cry is awesome, i use to to let out some aggression, i like the multiplayer aswell.... you should ttry it __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 16, 2004, 11:01 PM	#20
shaman9876 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA, WI Posts: 80 Rep Power: 62 System Specs	You can try ranish it is free. Ranish also has a boot manager. I also believe fedora Core 3 has a built in partition software but I will need to check. I am at work at the moment. I don't believe partition magic is that expensive though. found it on pricewatch.com for $29 http://www.pcbase.com/cgi-bin/main.p...&dc=pricewatch Hope this helps http://www.ranish.com/part/ http://www.ranish.com/ http://www.ranish.com/part/dualboot.pdf

Dec 16, 2004, 11:54 PM	Thread Starter #21
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	i checked out those sites, seems you need a A: drive for that program... i managed to get partition magic from a p2p but i ran into a new problem. Should i create a boot drive in win xp or in fedora core. Im pretty sure all i have to do is partition my drive into 2, then fedora will do the rest am i right..? __________________ new sig comming soon

Dec 17, 2004, 03:35 AM	#22
shaman9876 HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA, WI Posts: 80 Rep Power: 62 System Specs	Yes all you need to do is make room on the drive and it will install the grub boot loader and it will reconize both the linux and winxp partitions and allow you to boot from either. My suggestion is to make the linux partition fat32 because linux does not play well with ntfs and windows does not reconize the linux partition. For with my experiance at which i am still very new at it. I really wanted to transfer files between the two os's and could not because linux does not write to ntfs unless you use experimental drivers which can cause write errors. Which is bad bad bad

Dec 17, 2004, 03:46 AM	Thread Starter #23
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	cool.. ill defrag and run the pm8 now... then hopefuuly linux will install with no probs... ill let u know the outcome........ __________________ new sig comming soon