Installing Red Hat 8.0 ?

[Redbird400]

Well its time to ditch windows and try something new. This one I'm going to need some help on. I went to redhat.com and downloaded 5 disk from the ftp site. I burned them as ISO as told to from the redhat site and the cd rom burner. So now I have these 5 disk with the .iso files on them and I tried to make a boot disk from the 1st cd but it only shows that one .iso file. I tried to download a boot disk but it goes to page cant be displayed. Is there something that I'm doing wrong here?

 

[sleipnir214]

You should not just copy that .iso file to a CD.

You need CD-ROM burning software that can interpret that as a disk image, and use it as a template to burn the CD.

What CD burning software do you use? ______________________________________________________________________
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[sleipnir214]

Your software should have an option of "burn CD from image file" or something like that. Use that feature of your burning software to make the CD. ______________________________________________________________________
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[Redbird400]

some cheap software called ez creator that came with the burning software. Do you have a link to another version of burning software that I can use?

 

[sleipnir214]

If you mean Adaptec Easy CD Creator, it will do what you need.

Run the CD creator software. Go to the File menu, then select "Create CD from CD Image". A dialog box will open.

In the "Files of type" dropdown list, select "ISO image files (*.iso)". Then browse your directory tree to get to where the ISO images are stored and select one of your downloaded images.

From there, it's pretty straightforward. ______________________________________________________________________
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[Redbird400]

The only thing I can find is in the cd layout properties. It has a drop down for file system either ISO9660 or Joliet. I burned one with the ISO and it tured out to do the same thing so I'm not sure this burner is going to work.

 

[sleipnir214]

Three or four menu items below that one, there is no "Create CD from CD image"? ______________________________________________________________________
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[Redbird400]

Well I can find the ISO9660 selection there the drag the .iso from the C: drive to the cd layout and burn that .iso file. Is this what I'm soppossed to be doing? I did try that on disk 1 and it made a disk with that one .iso file on it. If thats right then its the part about making the boot disk that gets me.

 

[Redbird400]

Do you think undisker would be more reliable?

http://www.undisker.com/faq.html

 

[sleipnir214]

No, we're not dragging any files anywhere.

Right after you open Easy CD Creator, before you do anything else, select the "File" menu. In that menu on my copy of the program is a menu item titled "Create CD from CD image..." I believe this functionality is not available from anywhere else in the program.

Does yours not have that? ______________________________________________________________________
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[Redbird400]

Oh damn! I just downloaded undisker and browse to the .iso file on the hard drive and it shows alot more! Dude that was the best help all day! I have been downloading Redhat for 5 days and I would have never guessed that you cant just burn it as a reg old data cd. This should get me somewhere, thanx. Now if you know a easy way to load win2k and RH8.0 I will be set.

 

[Redbird400]

Oh you know what it does have that in there under the file. Your right.

 

[sleipnir214]

Don't just copy the files from the ISO to the CD. It will not be bootable. Burn the CD from the image.

One more time...

Does your copy of Easy CD Creator have a menu item titled "Create CD From CD Image..." under the File menu? ______________________________________________________________________
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[Redbird400]

k its burning like it should. Whats the difference between Juliet and ISO-9660?

 

[sleipnir214]

Not "Juliet". "Joliet"

This from the Easy CD creator help files:

File System:

ISO9660: Select this option if you want to be able to read the CD on different platforms including DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Windows and UNIX. Files and directories recorded to CD based on the ISO 9660 standard must meet the following (8+3) requirements:

A file name may not contain more than eight alphanumeric characters and the underscore symbol [_].

A file name extension may not contain more than three alphanumeric characters.

A directory name may not contain more than eight alphanumeric characters and the underscore symbol [_].

Joliet: Select this option if you want to use file names that contain up to 64 characters in length, including spaces. This is the default option and is used to record most CDs. Joliet also records the associated DOS-standard name (8+3 characters) for each file so that the CD may be read on DOS systems or earlier versions of Windows.

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[Redbird400]

Cool its installed and working right now. Thanx for the help.