Re: Newbie's problems

[gm <novastars sympatico ca>]

I suggest u try a different burning software. I've used nero and
blindwrite in your case I reccomend blindwrite.
http://www.blindwrite.com/  that way your sure to burn the iso images
properly. For a boot disk you need rawrite to create the a proper boot
disk.

Cheers

GM


On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:20, Carlos Kosloff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to install and learn Red Hat 9.
> I downloaded the 3 shrike iso images from the Red Hat site: the first one 
> seemed to work fine and I burnt it to CD without problems. I used Easy CD 
> Creator 5 Platinum with the latest update, then went to Data CD --> File --> 
> Make CD from image.
> Windows sees the CD but then I booted from it and did a linux mediacheck 
> with result fail, I also tried to burn the 2nd. image to CD but got two 
> failed attempts from Easy CD. So far 3 wasted CDs.
> Then I tried to make a boot diskette but the bootdisk.img file is too big 
> for a diskette, it has 1.4 MB and my diskette takes only 1.38. I want to to 
> check the images with the md5sum command but don't know how to do this.
> I downloaded the images to a folder in a FAT 32 partition.
> I don't just want to order the CDs, because it should work by downloading 
> and burning them.
> Also, I tried to download via FTP but can't get to the FTP site, I am just 
> copying the address from the Red Hat site and pasting into WS FTP LE usern: 
> anonymous, pass: my e-mail but no use, the connection keeps failing.
> Please help, thanks.
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Add MSN 8 Internet Software to your existing Internet access and enjoy 
> patented spam protection and more.  Sign up now!   
> http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/byoa
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Redhat-install-list mailing list
> Redhat-install-list redhat com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list
> To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to:
> redhat-install-list-request redhat com
> Subject: unsubscribe