Noob in installing Fedora Core 5

*sparks* · 04-25-2007, 01:38 AM

Hey guys I bought a INTEL GIGABYTE 3.0GHz / 3.06GHz DESKTOP COMPUTER SYSTEM recently and it does not have any OS with it. I tried loading Fedora Core 5 cd but it says Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. the BIOS is set to CDROM. I tried installing WinXP and it worked but I removed it because I want my computer exclusively for Linux. The cd came from a Red Hat Fedora 5 book. please help me...

Simon Bridge · 04-25-2007, 01:45 AM

The FC5 CD with the book is corrupt. Download FC6 and install that. (You may want to consider FC7... now in the later stages of testing, or a distro with a more recent release.)

You can check quickly with a live distro, DSL, Knoppix, Ubuntu ...

*sparks* · 04-25-2007, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon Bridge

The FC5 CD with the book is corrupt. Download FC6 and install that. (You may want to consider FC7... now in the later stages of testing, or a distro with a more recent release.)

You can check quickly with a live distro, DSL, Knoppix, Ubuntu ...

ok will try to do it. thanks for the tip.