Linux RedHat on SATA 1

[tinkertech]

I am installing Linux RedHat 9.0 on a dual HDD SATA system. I fear I may have some problems with the installation and wanted to check with this site if anyone had ever done this install and if any problems were incountered? Is the setup of RedHat will be as simple as it was with a regular ATA HDD?

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[tinkertech]

I just tried installing first one set and then the other; both of them give me a screen message of "operationg system missing" Are these not booting CDs? Do I need a special CD or diskette to boot to the installation screen? I change my bios to read the CD Rom first but the message is the same.

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[thedaver]

First, skip the SRPMS, they are not useful.
Second, how did you burn the CD's from .ISO files?

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[tinkertech]

This is how I burned these CDs. I went to the site Trojan suggested, Index of ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/. From there I clicked on each of the files to download to my PC. Once download was complete I used a data burning software to copy on to the CDs. The files are on the CDs with an .ISO extention. Should I have done the CD burnings some other way?

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[TrojanWarBlade]

If you double click each file in turn, you might be lucky and find that your burning software loads up and offers to burn them as images.
If not you will have to find a "burn image" option and locate the files with the file selector and set the "file type" option to "iso".
Then, as I suggested, burn the image.
DO NOT try to copy the iso file to the CD as a file. It's a complete CD image.
You should have four main ISO files to burn and CD1 of that set should be bootable.

Hope that helps.

Trojan.


Trojan.

 

[tinkertech]

Thanks Trojan. I had to try the other approach just in case someone had gotten tired of my asking so much.

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[TrojanWarBlade]

That's OK.
I was a little distracted for a while, watching Jessica Simpson's new Dukes of Hazzard video.
I'm sure you'll understand! ;-)


Trojan.

 

[tinkertech]

The original Daisy Dukes, yes. JS, not at all. Now I got to find out if my cd burning software can burn to an image right?

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[tinkertech]

Trojan, is there a burning software you recommend for image burning? The program I used to burn these cds at home is called cheeta. The one I have here at work is EZCD creator 5. It does have a feature under data recorder to burn a copy of an image. Would that be the one?

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[TrojanWarBlade]

Sounds about right.
Most people these days use Nero but try EZCD and it's "burn a copy of an image" option.


Trojan.

 

[tinkertech]

Well Dang! It didn't work. I downloaded the first CD to my harddrive, the using EZCD I burned to my cd using the burn image option but my system does not see it. I get the same, previous message of missing os. I'll try nero next.

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[thedaver]

OK, since tinkertech started a new thread on this new topic, can we please end this thread NOW!?

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[tinkertech]

Fair enough for me. Thank you all.

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