Trouble configuring Red Hat 7.2

[Pedro Morales]

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> 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.

nm the last two emails, found the problem, missing a /
, but now I loaded the boot disk and got to the
installation screen, it asked me which device had the
core files, I specified cdrom, then it tells me that
it can't find the core files, I tried all 3 cdroms and
non of them has them. All 3 cds were copied with the
iso of all 3 cds, so I must be missing something.



	
		
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