RE: Cannot install FC2

From: Eubank, Chris RBCM:EX (ceubank_at_royalbcmuseum.bc.ca)
Date: 08/12/04

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:39:39 -0700

    That would depend on whether you have the CDROM drive installed on a
    tertiary IDE controller (IDE2), or on a SCSI bus that you can't normally
    boot from.
     
    1. Is the CDROM a SCSI device?
    2. Is the CDROM on the Primary or Secondary IDE controller?
    3. Is the CDROM on a controller not listed in 2.?
    4. Can you boot any other bootable CD's from the suspect CDROM drive?
    5. Did you use your CDROM drive as a coffee cup holder at some point?
    Hehehe
     
    Good luck,
    Chris
     
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com
    [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tetens
    Sent: August 12, 2004 2:34 PM
    To: For users of Fedora Core releases
    Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
     
    I forgot to answer that one. yes it is configured as the primary boot
    device and the hard disk is second and the floppy is third. Does the CD
    need any drivers or the like to read the CD?

    webid@cfl.rr.com <mailto:webid@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:01, Bill Tetens wrote:
      
    No joy in mudville. Still had the files downloaded by bit torrent and
    I burned a new disk 1 using ISO and the orginial file. Still does not
    work and I get the same error message.
     
        
     
    So did you verify in the bios that the CDrom is configured as a boot
    device and listed ahead of the harddisk drive?
     
     
      
    zuki269@netscape.net <mailto:zuki269@netscape.net> wrote:
        
    I think the problem has been found. I burned them as data so I will
    burn them as ISO files and let you know how it turns out. Knew it
    had to be something I done.
     
    Thanks everyone.....
     
    webid@cfl.rr.com <mailto:webid@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
          
    On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:08, Bill Tetens wrote:
      
            
    Totally new to Linux and am trying to install Fedora on a computer with
    a blank HDD. I put disk one in the CD and changed the boot order
    putting the CD Rom first.
     
    The following error message is displayed after the CD appears to be checked.
     
    Reboot and select proper boot device
    or insert boot media in selectefd boot device.
     
    The CD passed the checksum so I am assuming that it is OK but don't
    have a clue where to go now. I know something is wrong but what.
     
    Help would be more than appreciated.
     
    Thanks
        
              
    Welcome aboard!
     
    Most likely you need to configure your bios to boot from the CDrom
    drive.
     
    The next most likely problem is that when you burned the CDs you did not
    burn them as images. In you CD burner software there should be an
    option to burn the CD as an iso or image, then select the iso file you
    downloaded. This will burn a bootable CD. If you just burned the iso
    as data to the CD that will not work.
     
    My money is on the bios settings.
      
            
     
     
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