Can't install FC4 from SCSI CDROM

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On 6/24/05, Kevin B. Walker wrote:
> I've got an old 650MHz Single Board Computer (SBC) with an Adaptec 1542
> CDROM. I can boot from the FC4 Disk one but the installation program
> can't see the CDROM. The Adaptec driver seems to be loading. Any ideas?

I think this is an issue for fedora-list, but assuming the network driver loads
and you have an older linux on the system I would recommend booting an 
http install from the bootloader.

Here's a paste of my local RHEL4 notes, should be the same for FC4:

Copy the files from disc1/images/pxeboot/ and put them in /boot; here
is an example grub section:

title install
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /pxeboot/vmlinuz 
        initrd /pxeboot/initrd.img 


This describes a method for sysadmins to create an install point
without copying the RPMs from the ISOs. The goal is to create a single
place that looks like one really big CD (or DVD) to anaconda, the Red
Hat installer. This will need to be done for every new release or
update CD set.

Make sure you have enough room for 4 CDs on the server, then go to the
[WWW] RHN website, click on "Channels" then click on "Easy ISOs" on
the left.

   1.

      Find the correct Channel, currently "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
(v. 4 for 32-bit x86)," then download them on the server:

mkdir -p /ISO/4as
cd /ISO/4as
nohup wget -c 'LONG-URL-disc1.iso' &
nohup wget -c 'LONG-URL-disc2.iso' &
nohup wget -c 'LONG-URL-disc3.iso' &
nohup wget -c 'LONG-URL-disc4.iso' &

   2.

      Make directories and add the ISOs to /etc/fstab (same as mount
-t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1 RHEL4-i386-AS-disc1.iso disc1)

mkdir {disc1,disc2,disc3,disc4}
cat >> /etc/fstab <<EOF
/ISO/4as/RHEL4-i386-AS-disc1.iso /ISO/4as/disc1 iso9660 loop=/dev/loop1 0 0
/ISO/4as/RHEL4-i386-AS-disc2.iso /ISO/4as/disc2 iso9660 loop=/dev/loop2 0 0
/ISO/4as/RHEL4-i386-AS-disc3.iso /ISO/4as/disc3 iso9660 loop=/dev/loop3 0 0
/ISO/4as/RHEL4-i386-AS-disc4.iso /ISO/4as/disc4 iso9660 loop=/dev/loop4 0 0
EOF
mount disc1
mount disc2
mount disc3
mount disc4

      You should now be able to look inside the ISOs with a command
like ls /ISO/4as/disc2/RedHat/.
   3.

      Set up a hierarchy and add symbolic links (ignore the TRANS.TBL warnings)

mkdir -p /ISO/4as/RedHat/RPMS/
ln -s /ISO/4as/disc1/RedHat/base/ /ISO/4as/RedHat/
ln -s /ISO/4as/disc1/RedHat/TRANS.TBL /ISO/4as/RedHat/
ln -s /ISO/4as/disc1/RedHat/RPMS/* /ISO/4as/RedHat/RPMS
ln -s /ISO/4as/disc2/RedHat/RPMS/* /ISO/4as/RedHat/RPMS
ln -s /ISO/4as/disc3/RedHat/RPMS/* /ISO/4as/RedHat/RPMS
ln -s /ISO/4as/disc4/RedHat/RPMS/* /ISO/4as/RedHat/RPMS

      You now have a complete monolithic image, which could also be
used to [WWW] make a DVD
   4.

      Make it all web-accessible

mkdir /var/www/html/rhel
cd /var/www/html/rhel
ln -s /ISO/4as .