RE: unable to install

From: Andrew Reilly (areilly_at_fccc.org)
Date: 06/18/04

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:55:05 -0400

    I have now downloaded the free trial of Nero 6, and the image unpacks when
    it burns onto the CD. This still doesn't solve the problem. I put the disk
    into the machine, and it doesn't install the OS. I have formatted the HD of
    the machine I want to install to, partially because I was tired of seeing
    Win 98 come up when the disk failed to work. I now have burned about 3
    copies of the Disk 1 for the 4 disk set without success.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Peter Sil*** [mailto:smallcreep@quista.net]
    Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:24 AM
    To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    Subject: Re: unable to install

    Matt Morgan wrote:

    > On 06/18/2004 11:22 AM, Andrew Reilly wrote:
    >
    >> I have checked the MD5 Checksums, yet I still can't install off the
    >> CD's that I have burned. I have unpacked the ISO's and tried to
    >> install. I have burned the ISO's straight onto CD's, but neither are
    >> recognized at bootup, and neither install the OS to the machine. WHAT
    >> IS THE ISSUE?!!!!!!!!
    >>
    > One common problem among people who haven't done this before is that
    > you may be burning the ISO onto the CD as a file, rather than an
    > image. Forgive me if this is not the case, it's not clear from your
    > message. When burning an ISO image, you normally have to select a
    > special command to transfer the image, rather than just copy the file
    > onto the CD.
    >
    > When you put those CD's into CD-rom drive on a working computer, what
    > do you see? Do you see a single file named *.iso? Or do you see a
    > whole bunch of files and directories?
    >
    >
    >
    As Matt points out, writing a file rather than an ISO image may not be
    the problem here. But similar questions seem to appear regularly on the
    mailing list, so I thought it might be useful to refer interested
    parties to http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/192, which contains a
    useful HOWTO. One reservation: if the CD writer is not mapped to a SCSI
    device, you will need to use "dev=/dev/hdc" or similar, not "dev=0,4,0"
    or similar, on the command line.
    Hope this helps,
    Peter Sil*** 

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