Re: Newbie installation woes...pls help!

[Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez <manuaroste yahoo es>]

Then, when you have your isos cd's well-burned, don't
forget to change in BIOS the HD boot for cd-rom boot

 --- Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>
escribió: > 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.
> robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
> Alcoholism is also believed to be genetic.  Is that
> OK, too?
> 
> 
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