Hello, my question is fairly simple. Someone at my office loaned me three cd's labeled "Redhat Linux 9.0" which evidently they had used to install the OS on their winXP computer. I couldn't take the cd's home however, so I inserted each into my drive, selected all files on it, and copied it onto a folder on my hard drive. I thus had 3 folders, each containing the files from each CD. When I got home, I burned 3 cd's, each from the 3 folders I had created. However, the CD 1, which from what I've read in help files about installs, should boot my PC if I've configured the BIOS to boot from a CD before the HD, will not boot! My question is: What most likely did I do wrong in this procedure, and is there any way I can use these cd's, re-burn them, etc. to make this work. Thanks much! Adam B. arb_colorado@yahoo.com

just copying the files to cd won't work, you should have made ISO's.

get a program call clone cd and it will clone the cd for you and this should work just fine.(make sure you use his cd's and not the one's you made)

Download the iso's off the internet and get rid of the licensed cd's, they belong to your employer, if reading between the lines is accurate. If these cd's are in fact not a licensed set sold to your employer for their use, and they are in fact the freely availabe version that you can download off the internet, then the files you coppied from the cd's to hard drive will install the system if you read how to install from hard drive located on the first cd. How ever this can be troublesome, and may cause problems installing. The best thing to do is download the iso's from the internet, and burn'um. Make sure you read the how-to on burning the cd's so you burn a bootable cd for the buring software used.