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

[Chris Morton]

Stuart Sears wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 11:19, siva prakash wrote:
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>>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
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>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.