Re: Newbie installation woes...pls help!

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:40:05AM -0800, Joe Wilkins wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
> I've decided to try and check out Linux and have decided on trying
>  to install Red Hat 9 on a Compaq Deskpro with a Pentium II with
>  320MB of ram. I have two hard drives both on IDE 0. Disk 0 has
>  three partitions with a different version of Windows on each. Disk1
>  is new and unformated and will hopefully be the future home of Red
>  Hat. I have a CDR on IDE 1, and there is also a floppy drive.
> I downloaded shrike-i386-disk1.iso - disk3 off a mirror site from
>  kernel.org. I put all on 3 CD's and made a bootdisk of bootdisk.img
>  with rawrite.
> When I booted the computer with the bootdisk the Red Hat install
>  page opened up ok and after selecting my language and keyboard ok
>  it asked for the Red Hat CD. I inserted the shrike-i386-disk1.iso
>  but could not get the install to go any further, like it was the
>  wrong CD or something. Then I tried extracting the
>  shrike-i386-disk1.iso with WINIMAGE and then made a new CD of the
>  exctracted files but still could not get past the install page that
>  is asking for the Red Hat CD.
> What am I doing wrong?
>  
> Joe Wilkins

My first guess is that you burned the ISOs as files instead of
images.  Have a look at them with Windoze.  If there is one file, the
ISO, then you now have three nice coasters.  You should see an
assortment of files and directories on each CD.

There are more hints here:

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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