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Re: Can't install RH7.3 on Samsung Q10



> kene wrote:
> > I've bought Samsung Q10 notebook with a IEEE1394 24x CDROM. But after I
> > boot with the first CD and chose language and country, then it keep
> > asking for the location of CDROM image. As I don't have networking, so I
> > have to just choose HARD DISK installation.(Seems the CDROM cannot be
> > detected)
> >
> > I've copied \RedHat\base and \RedHat\RPM to the FAT16 partition (E:) but
> > after choosing /dev/hda6, it said "CDROM image do not appear in /dev/hda6".
> >
> > Any other installation method that can sucessfully install the RH7.3 ??
> > Please advice. Thanks
>
> You must place the .iso images of the three CDs on your hard disk
> and they MUST be named as they are on the RedHat site
> ("valhalla-i386.disc1.iso", etc.)
>
Hello;
Actually you don't have to name them the same.


I copied them to a "scratch" VFAT-32 partition called '/common-vfat'.
I wrote down its partiton number from /etc/fstab (/dev/hda7)
Made a directory for them: 'mkdir /common-vfat/RH73'

Do not mount the cd, use dd:
'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/common-vfat/RH73/disk1.iso bs=2048'

I called them 'disk1.iso', 'disk2.iso', and 'disk3.iso'

Made an install floppy from the first cd, booted from it and selected 'hard
disk install'
I was asked for the partition - '/dev/hda7'
Then for the directory - 'RH73'
Worked fine and was very fast

Mick M


Thanks for your replies. As I'm really a newbie, there's still some questions.
The .iso files need to be download from the Redhat Site, rite? What I've got is the 5CD package, i.e. 2 burned CD from iso, 2 source code and 1 application disk.


There are only .img files inside the images folder of the first CD. Any other method instead of downloading the .iso files from the site because I have very limited internet connection here??

Thanks
Kene


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