Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2

[Rick Stevens]

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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