Re: Redhat Linux 9 installation help needed!!!

"Ray" <rayjgold@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:23:06 +0000, Ray wrote:

I now have the iso images for redhat linux, but im having trouble
installing
it. can anyone help. when i extract the files to cd i am not able to
boot
from the CD.

And when i boot from a floppy i get up to "The Redhat Linux CD was not
found
in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Red hat linux CD and press
ok"


But the cd is in! I tried extract all the files to the cd and also I
tried
just burning the straight IMG file to the CD and it still gives the same
error.

can anyone help?

What command did you use to burn the CDs? Just copying an ISO to a CD
won't give you a bootable CD. For CD ISOs I use cdrecord from the command
line, for DVD ISOs I use growisofs.

i am trying to dual boot between windows and linux on a box that does not
have unix on it. i dont think i can use those commands.

Im using iso buster to extract the file and then burning them to cd

I'm not familiar with your software, so I can't tell exactly what you're
doing, but one common mistake people make is to extract files from the
..iso file and burn them to a CDROM. This will not make a bootable CDROM.
The .iso file contains the raw data that should be written directly to
a CDROM. Nothing should be extracted from the .iso file. Maybe your
CDROM burning software has a term like "image copy" or something.

Scott
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Scott Hemphill hemphill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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