I have a copy of Fedora Core 3 on CD with instructions to boot the PC from the CD. The Boot Drive for my PC is Drive A for floppy disks and I cannot find any information as to how I can change the Boot Drive to one that uses CD's. It is suggested that I may have to change the BIOS settings. My computer is an Intel Pentium CPU 2.40 Ghz 496 MB RAM.
Please help!
Mitch Pratt
Mitch Pratt wrote:
I have a copy of Fedora Core 3 on CD with instructions to boot the PC from the CD. The Boot Drive for my PC is Drive A for floppy disks and I cannot find any information as to how I can change the Boot Drive to one that uses CD's. It is suggested that I may have to change the BIOS settings. My computer is an Intel Pentium CPU 2.40 Ghz 496 MB RAM.
I'd have thought that a 2.40 Ghz machine was new enough to have booting from CD enabled by default. Have you tried putting the fisrt Fedora CD in the CD drive and rebooting the computer?
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Paul.
On Friday 04 March 2005 10:21, Mitch Pratt wrote:
I have a copy of Fedora Core 3 on CD with instructions to boot the PC from the CD. The Boot Drive for my PC is Drive A for floppy disks and I cannot find any information as to how I can change the Boot Drive to one that uses CD's. It is suggested that I may have to change the BIOS settings. My computer is an Intel Pentium CPU 2.40 Ghz 496 MB RAM.
Please help!
Mitch Pratt
Well, yes - you have to change the boot order in your BIOS. Some BIOSes boot order can be changed at bootup by pressing the F8 key but not every BIOS supports this. Otherwise you have to enter BIOS setup (Del or F2 or F12 or whatever) and find the entry for the boot order. There you usually can change from "Drive A:" or "Floppy" to "CD-ROM". Oh, and your cd-drive must have been detected by your BIOS (so it may not be turned off or "none" or however you BIOS calls it).
freddy