Installing from ISO disks

[Ken Loomis]

I burned the 3 iso images of RedHat 9 onto 3 cds in iso9660 format
using a WinXP machine. I plan a single boot system on another PC. I
have the machine set to boot from the CD-ROM drive. I start the
machine and it boots normally into the old Linux version.

What did I do wrong, or not do? I read the documentation at RedHat,
but it quickly starting using terms I was unfamiliar with. I've used
mostly Windows.

Thanks.

Ken

[David Dorward]

Ken Loomis wrote:

> I burned the 3 iso images of RedHat 9 onto 3 cds in iso9660 format
> using a WinXP machine. I plan a single boot system on another PC. I
> have the machine set to boot from the CD-ROM drive. I start the
> machine and it boots normally into the old Linux version.

You probably created new iso images containing the existing iso images as
files.

What do you see if you try looking at the CDROM in a file manager? A list of
lots of files, or just thingy.iso?

Consult the manual for your CD burning software to see how to burn existing
iso images without creating new ones.

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[Ken Loomis]

Thanks David and Bit:

Good advice and references.

Ken

[Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th]

Ken Loomis <kloomis@notarealaddress.com> wrote in
news:tdeclvgsh8bqo1p7dgdge1o2ar5199n6qs@4ax.com:

> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:49:36 +0100, David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com>
> wrote:

>>
>>What do you see if you try looking at the CDROM in a file manager? A
>>list of lots of files, or just thingy.iso?

>
> thingy.iso
>

>>
>>Consult the manual for your CD burning software to see how to burn
>>existing iso images without creating new ones.

>
> Thanks, I'll look. I have Roxio CD Burner whose documentation is
> worse than Microsoft's
>
> Ken
>

Ken,

The burner I have has an option that says "Create CD from CD image file".
When you select that, it asks what type of image and gives .iso format as
one of the options. You then point it at the iso image file and it
creates the CD. You will end up with heaps of files on the CD with all
the required boot sector stuff for your PC to be able to boot off the
first CD of the set. The other two CD's correspond to the other two iso
files you should have downloaded.

Rgds Llanzlan.

[Ken Loomis]

On 4 Sep 2003 15:50:04 +1200, Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th
<Llanzlan@Llurdiaxorb.net> wrote:

>The burner I have has an option that says "Create CD from CD image file".

Yep, that's what I did and I got good disks that passed the crc check
on Linux. Only thing was I got a "media' or hardare problem " when
installing. So I'm bummed. Maybe the download was bad? Would it
stall pass the disk check if the download was bad?

Ken

[J]

Is your boot order correct in you cmos?

I turn off CD-Rom normally so I don't accidentially boot off a CD-Rom disc.

-John

"Ken Loomis" <kloomis@notarealaddress.com> wrote in message
news:73dclv84ju7n01vlioheusc0d9ftt6225e@4ax.com...

> I burned the 3 iso images of RedHat 9 onto 3 cds in iso9660 format
> using a WinXP machine. I plan a single boot system on another PC. I
> have the machine set to boot from the CD-ROM drive. I start the
> machine and it boots normally into the old Linux version.
>
> What did I do wrong, or not do? I read the documentation at RedHat,
> but it quickly starting using terms I was unfamiliar with. I've used
> mostly Windows.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken

[ne...]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 at 01:51 GMT, J eloquently wrote:
[TOP POSTING REARRANGED]

> "Ken Loomis" <kloomis@notarealaddress.com> wrote in message
> news:73dclv84ju7n01vlioheusc0d9ftt6225e@4ax.com...

>> I burned the 3 iso images of RedHat 9 onto 3 cds in iso9660 format
>> using a WinXP machine. I plan a single boot system on another PC. I
>> have the machine set to boot from the CD-ROM drive. I start the
>> machine and it boots normally into the old Linux version.
>>
>> What did I do wrong, or not do? I read the documentation at RedHat,
>> but it quickly starting using terms I was unfamiliar with. I've used
>> mostly Windows.

> Is your boot order correct in you cmos?
>
> I turn off CD-Rom normally so I don't accidentially boot off a CD-Rom disc.

John please read what the OP wrote. I quote:
"I have the machine set to boot from the CD-ROM drive."

And while you are at it, please stop top posting.

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[Ken Loomis]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:51:52 -0400, "J" <j@n.c> wrote:

>Is your boot order correct in you cmos?

Yes, thanks.

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[Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th]

Ken Loomis <kloomis@notarealaddress.com> wrote in
news:0ffflvcgh6mjd7kqhb5rm8f3rmflkn5ohu@4ax.com:

> On 4 Sep 2003 15:50:04 +1200, Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th
> <Llanzlan@Llurdiaxorb.net> wrote:
>

>>The burner I have has an option that says "Create CD from CD image
>>file".

>
> Yep, that's what I did and I got good disks that passed the crc check
> on Linux. Only thing was I got a "media' or hardare problem " when
> installing. So I'm bummed. Maybe the download was bad? Would it
> stall pass the disk check if the download was bad?
>
> Ken
>

Do you get the same problem if you try installing them on a different PC?

L.

[Ken Loomis]

On 10 Sep 2003 12:40:56 +1200, Llanzlan Klazmon The 15th
<Llanzlan@Llurdiaxorb.net> wrote:

>>
>> Yep, that's what I did and I got good disks that passed the crc check
>> on Linux. Only thing was I got a "media' or hardware problem " when
>> installing. So I'm bummed. Maybe the download was bad? Would it
>> stall pass the disk check if the download was bad?

>
>Do you get the same problem if you try installing them on a different PC?

I haven't got a spare PC to do that on, and repartioning my
development machine is not something I can even think about. Also...
the original install on this system produced Gnome just fine, but
re-installing the original forces the monitor to throw some kind of
internal switch and then X won't come up. The monitor is an older
one, but it's in the list of supported devices.

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Ken