the device doesn't appear to contain redhat9.0 cdrom images

[Stuart Sears]

Chris Morton wrote:

> Stuart Sears wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 11:19, siva prakash wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> My system was uable to boot from the cd-rom. so I just copyied the 
>>> redhat files and created a boot floopy. the installaton is not 
>>> detecting the redhat cdrom images in my hard disk. it is giving 
>>> error message as
>>> "The device doesn't appear to contain redhat cdrom images"
>>> could someone help me please
>>>   
>>
>> I assume you tried to do a 'hard disk' install...
>> the hard disk install requires ISO images of the CDs on the partition
>> you specify.
>> what you need to do is use a boot floppy (which i assume works) and do a
>> CDROM install - this should work perfectly.
>>
> Assuming that his system is set up properly to boot from the CD, this 
> makes me wonder how old/proprietary his hardware is.
>
> It's been a VERY long time since I worked with a machine that wouldn't 
> boot off of a properly burned image.
>
> That of course raises the question of which cd-rom he was trying to 
> boot from, an actual Red Hat disk from the box, or a disk he burned.  
> It's possible that he didn't actually burn an ISO image, but merely 
> copy the files onto the CD.

You may well be right, as this info was never supplied. If the OP was 
able to copy the contents of the disks I would assume that the disks 
were correctly burned (I have of course been wrong in the past). The 
CDROM route is certainly worth trying first...