Stupid newbie trying to install Feisty

[wayneinvt]

Background:
Too many years with MS. I've forgotten most of the DOS I knew, and Unix, well, too many years ago.
Trying to install Feisty from the desktop CD on a brand new system (PC, 1 gig RAM, 533 FSB, two 40 gig drives, no video card or network card (yet)).
I dumped and reformatted both drives (NTFS is all it would allow), stuck the CD in and tried to boot... got " disk boot failure, insert system disk hit enter..."
so I'm reinstalling WIN XP to give it something to work with.
Question: Will having Windows OS on the machine enable the desktop CD to work? (I'm getting the same error with the alternate CD version. Yes, I have the CD configured in bios as one of the boot options. Makes no diff whether it's first middle or last.I thought Feisty could be installed on a new system with no trouble?

If anyone can help this stupid newbie, I would certainly appreciate it.
Best,
Wayne

[jwebster8]

Re: Stupid newbie trying to install Feisty

It sounds to me like you need to change the boot sequence in the BIOS of your pc. at boot time, the cd rom doesnt require an OS to work. There are basic cdrom drivers loaded on your hardware.

[wayneinvt]

Re: Stupid newbie trying to install Feisty

Thanks, but tried that. As I said, it made no difference if it was first, second or last.
Windows is installing just fine from the CD, so I don't think it's that.

[lowey23]

Re: Stupid newbie trying to install Feisty

You may have a corrupted download but you may have burnt the disk ISO at too high a speed. About 4X normally gives a good result.

Hope this helps.

[2004]

Re: Stupid newbie trying to install Feisty

I've had this problem too using cd-rw's
using a cd-r fixed it