RE: RH9 install problem

[Alan Bort <333101 personal net py>]

well. hitting enter does not work. Sorry. Where can I get something like
the MD5 SUM so I can check the CD's Integrity? and will that work on a
iso image (note: I don't seem to have loopback compiled in the kernel).

Thanks a lot.

El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 07:14, Otto Haliburton escribió:
> Don't do anything just hit enter I believe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com] On Behalf Of Alan Bort
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:57 PM
> To: RedHar - Install
> Subject: RE: RH9 install problem
> 
> Ok, I was not clear enough...
> 
> I boot perfectly fine until the part where it asks the boot type
> (rescue, driver disk,  linux, linux text, etc. I put 'linux' and ti
> starts a text based GUI and puts a menu with four or five items: Hard
> Disk | Local CDROM | FTP | HTTP | NFS image. I think that was it. If
> there I chose CDROM it says that the CD in my drive is not the correct
> one (I'm sure it's the 1st image). And if i try to boot from my hard
> drive (I copied the release notes and the RedHat direcotry to a linux
> native FS) it says that the HD install does not support GUI installation
> and shuts down.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 00:39, Otto Haliburton escribió:
> > I not sure I understand the problem.  You are booting the media ok.
> The
> > first thing that it ask is to verify the media i.e. it will check the
> > media to see if it is okay.  You are allowed to skip this check, but
> the
> > best thing is to accept the check and you can do that by just putting
> > the cd's in the drive.  I don't believe that I have had the question
> > "what kind of media to use"
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com] On Behalf Of Alan Bort
> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:11 PM
> > To: RedHar - Install
> > Subject: RH9 install problem
> > 
> > Hi List:
> > 
> > 	I am currently using Mandrake 9.1. Recently I tried to install
> > XD2
> > (Ximian Desktop 2) and failed due to a distro incompatibility problem.
> > It turns out that XD2 is only available for RedHat. Anyway, for a
> while
> > now I've been wanting to try RedHat... I've heard very good comments
> of
> > it. So I downloaded the ISO images from a mirror (linux.org.ar)
> > 
> > 	Anyway... I had a few problems with the second image but this
> > mail is
> > about the first one. Now, I boot perfectly until it asks what kind of
> > media I want to use as source. I tried both, Local CDROM and Hard
> Disk.
> > Neither one of them worked (that's the whole point of this mail). The
> CD
> > install says that it does not seem to be the correct CD... and the
> hard
> > disk says that in hd installation the GUI is not available. After that
> > it just goes down, umounts everything and tells me it's ready to
> reboot.
> > Now... I'm shocked... I would have never expected something like this
> > from RedHat... so I KNOW there is something I'm not doing right... 
> > 
> > 	I'd like any help you guys can provide me with... and I will
> > sure
> > apreciate every comment about my mail.
> > 
> > 	Excuse me for not aplying all the rules of a proper problem
> > report
> > mail. But this is my first time in this list... so I thought a little
> > intro would help.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
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