Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2

[Rick Stevens]

Pedro Morales wrote:
> Pedro Morales wrote:
> 
>>--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Pedro Morales wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>--- jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:01, Pedro Morales wrote:
>>>>>snip
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>the cd1 has:
>>>>>>in green:
>>>>>>autorun
>>>>>>eula.txt
>>>>>>GPL
>>>>>>readme
>>>>>>readme-acessbility
>>>>>>release -notes
>>>>>>release -notes.html
>>>>>>RPM-GPG-Key
>>>>>>RPM-GPG-Key-beta
>>>>>>RPM-GPG-Key-fedora
>>>>>>RPM-GPG-Key--fedora-rawhide
>>>>>>RPM-GPG-Key-fedora-test
>>>>>>RPM-GPG-Key-rawhide
>>>>>>Trans.tbl
>>>>>>
>>>>>>in blue
>>>>>>dosutils
>>>>>>fedora
>>>>>>images
>>>>>>isolinux
>>>>>>
>>>>>>did I download the wrong iso or is it missing the
>>>>>
>>>>>boot
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>file?
>>>>>
>>>>>snip
>>>>>This is a correct burn. Now the question is this
>>>>>yarrow* (Fedora Core 1 
>>>>>--FC1) or Fedora core 2.
>>>>>FC2 has errors that won't allow it to boot on some
>>>>>systems. It is also a
>>>>>beta test core for the gurus and grungy beasties
>>>
>>>to
>>>
>>>
>>>>>play with.
>>>>>
>>>>>-- 
>>>>>jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>ok well I downloaded teh cd1 iso again, burned it,
>>>
>>>ran
>>>
>>>
>>>>it in my pc and it booted from the cd, but it
>>>
>>>didnt in
>>>
>>>
>>>>teh classroom, the bio has cdrom as first boot and
>>>
>>>HD
>>>
>>>
>>>>as second, it read teh cdrom and went to the HD
>>>
>>>and
>>>
>>>
>>>>loaded 7.2, now im wondering, is there a way to
>>>
>>>run
>>>
>>>
>>>>the FC1 installation from the 7.2 text mode?
>>>
>>>I'm not certain I understand that.  I understand
>>>that English isn't
>>>your primary language, so try to answer these one at
>>>a time:
>>
>>
>>well, I've been in the US for over 3 years, and in
>>college, so I do try my best to write it and get
>>understood...
> 
> 
> Sorry.  Your messages tend to run together a bit.  I
> have trouble
> reading them.  But I'm old (46) and it's probably my
> fault.  :-(  I
> appologize.
> 
> 
>>>1. Did you burn the Fedora Core 1 .iso image on a
>>>new CD?
>>
>>
>>yes
>>
>>
>>
>>>2. Did that CD boot on your home system?
>>
>>
>>yes
> 
> 
> Ah, good...so we know it's good media--as far as
> booting is concerned.
> 
> 
>>>3. If #2 is "yes", did that CD boot on your school
>>>system?
>>
>>
>>no
> 
> 
> Ugh!  Ok. let's press on.
> 
> 
>>>4. If #3 is "no", did you check the BIOS settings on
>>>the school system
>>>to make sure it would try to boot the CD before the
>>>hard disk?
>>
>>
>>yes
> 
> 
> Ok, did you see it actually try the CD (did the light
> flash) or did
> it simply skip over it and go to the hard drive?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
>>> if you can find some of
>>>the old CD-R media
>>>that's gold in color, you may have better luck. 
>>>Either that or you
>>>should replace the CD drive in the school's system.
>>
>>
>>well I have installed other programs with the same
>>type of cd-r media, and it did boot on my home pc
>>(built it myself).
> 
> 
> On the school system?  Really?  From the same make of
> blank media?
> That's VERY weird.
> 
> Well, I suppose you could force an install by using a
> boot floppy if it
> won't boot the CD.  If you can, mount the first CD
> under Linux and put
> a blank floppy in the floppy drive.  As the root user:
> 
> 	# cd /mnt/cdrom/images
> 	# dd if=bootdisk.img of=dev/fd0 bs=1k
> 	# cd /root
> 	# umount /mnt/cdrom
> 
> That will build your bootable floppy.  You can then
> boot the system off
> the floppy and install from the CD.
> 
> [more snippage]
> 
> 
>>As stated in an earlier email IBM ThinkCentre
>>8189-A4U, ahs a P4 hyperthread, 512ram, intel MB,
>>video integrated (Intel 650G)
> 
> 
> Sorry, lost the previous messages and didn't have a
> record of that.
> Gee, that should work with no problem.
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> ok so I tried to make the bootable floppy, and im
> getting the following error:
> 
> "dev/fd0" no such file or directory

Sorry, that's a typo.  That line is "

	dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
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