Installing Fedora 6

[jhs3]

I found a similar question to mine, named 'Downloading Fedora 6'. I have a slightly different set of problems.

I have downloaded the Fedora 6 core package as a .iso file, successfully loaded the data on a dvd, and I am fairly certain that that part is done correctly. The dvd seems to have all the files and directories, and I think it is ready to load. I base this statement on putting the dvd back in the Windows PC I did the download on, and I can see all the files and directories in Windows Explorer. I also went to the Command prompt, and it seems that that dvd is ... ready.

I have a pc waiting to be my linux box. It is an amd sempron processer 2600+. It has a brand new 300gb hard drive, a dvd RW and a cd drive. This box is not going to be dual boot - it will be linux ONLY. I created two partitions, using the MaxBlast 4 software that came with the maxtor hard drive. I created the partitions as NTFS.

I stick the dvd in the drive, reboot and get a nasty 'NTLDR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart'.

Well, that's no help. So, where did I go wrong? Does the install dvd need something on it that isn't there? Should I have created more partitions? Fewer? Not NTFS? I have searched for others having the problems - especially those that get the 'NTLDR' error - but all of the ones I've found are doing dual-boot systems.

Would someone like to start me off from scratch and tell me exactly what steps I should take? I'd like to assume that I have a good dvd in my hand, and I'll reformat and repartition as many times as I need to to get this to work.

[Persian342]

I don't really know how to partition a hard drive, but I got Fedora Core 6 to work in the end just by booting the disc and going through the steps it had there is a tutorial for this on the fedora website. But for the step by step I went to the BIOS set it to boot from my CD drive then I inserted the first disc started it up if it works you'll get a screen with the DNA spirals. From here you want to install it on with the visual option. It should also ask you to test your discs just in case of an error.

Note if you already got past this you may want to ask Twey he helped me a lot.

[jhs3]

Thanks, Persian. But, as I said, I can't get that far. But, I was still trying things last night, and left my newly made DVD in my Windows PC - the PC that I created the disk on. This morning I booted the Windows PC (with the Linux disk in the drive) and it booted off the Linux disk and wanted to try to install. So, this is another indication that the disk is good. I need some truly basic help with setting up the 'other' PC.

[Twey]

Linux will not run on an NTFS partition - NTFS lacks a lot of features on which a Linux kernel depends. Your safest bet (since it's the most common) is ext3.

[boxxertrumps]

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm ?

IMO, it sounds like you havent set the BIOS to boot the DVD drive first.

[jhs3]

Problem solved. :o

I was putting the Linux on a PC with a DVD drive, so I put the installation on a DVD. I was using an old PC that I hadn't used in about 3 years. I put in a new MB and more memory and a new HD. I used the drive to use the OnTrack software that came with the HD. But, that's on a CD. And, in my frustration, I loaded WinXP on it, to see if I could get it to 'dual boot'. I installed XP - but that is on a CD. I finally saw the light. The DVD drive was not reading DVDs.

I bought a new DVD drive. And I'm up and running on Linux.