Pre-Installation: Can You Boot from CD?

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Before you go on to the installation, make sure that your computer is set up to boot from your CD drive. Most machines these days are set up to do this, so you probably don’t have to do anything special. If you’re not sure and don’t feel like tinkering around, you can just find out by going right to the installation steps in the next section. If the installation starts up, you can just keep going. On the other hand, if you suddenly boot up in Windows, you will have to make some adjustments.

Probably the only thing you have to do is restart your machine and then press whatever key the screen tells you to in order to enter your BIOS setup. This is usually DELETE or F1, but not all machines are the same. If the onscreen information passes by so fast that you miss it, you can check your user’s manual to see what the correct key is. Once you get into the BIOS setup, change the boot sequence so that your CD drive is first.

In the extremely unlikely event that your machine cannot boot from a CD at all, you will have to create a 3.5-inch boot diskette. To do this, you must first boot up your machine in Windows. Once you are at your Windows desktop, insert the Fedora Core Install Disk 1 and look for and open the dosutils folder on that CD.

In the dosutils folder, you will find another folder called rawritewin. Open that folder, and you will find a utility program called rawwritewin (that’s no typo: two w’s in the folder name, but three in the application name). It has a little penguin as its icon. Double-click the penguin, and RawWrite will open up as shown in Figure 2-1.

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Figure 2-1: RawWrite under Windows

To create the boot floppy, put a 1.44MB floppy disk in your floppy drive. In the Image File input box in the RawWrite window, type D:\images/bootdisk.img (if your CD drive is not the D drive, change this accordingly) or use the ... button to locate the file graphically. Once you’ve done this, click the Write button, and RawWrite will create a boot floppy for you. Once it’s done, be sure to label the diskette accordingly.



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Linux for Non-Geeks. A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
Linux for Non-Geeks: A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
ISBN: 1593270348
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 188

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