Linux V9.0 redhat cdrom being diasble after instal starts

[Krosus]

I have a problem I set my laptop to boot from Linux install CD and it loads up the linux install. I select either text or graphical install and it goes through the hardware checks etc, but when it comes to the mediacheck the cd-rom fails to be recognised and then locks up and refuses to eject the cd or anything and i have to reboot.

Never come accross this before with my older laptop a 333mhz machine and the machine im trying it on is a 733mhz p3 with 128mb ram.

I tried a forum search but couldnt see anything noticeable relating to my problem so any help would be most appreciated as I have only moderate linux exp.

 

[Krosus]

Minor update i eject the cd using the manual pin in hole method and put the cd back in, the cd then accesses but then i get the Linux cd not found message with any of the 3 cd's bearing in mind the install just started from the cd...

 

[Fixles]

What type of CD rom are you using? Whats the make and model of the laptop?

Have a look at the following page

http://www.linux-laptop.net

Try booting from floppy. Use the rawrite program on the first cd in /dosutils/ to create a boot disk. Use the Bootdisk.img

When you get to the boot prompt type mediacheck and it will prompt you for the cd or ISO image and check if it is intact.

Did you download the ISO's?

 

[Krosus]

the laptop is a generic one branded by a company called Tiny who went the way of the dodo, model is notebook a440

I tried media check, that worked o.k but when i actual start the install program i.e choose keyboard layout etc thats when it stops recognising the cd in the drive.

And yes I did download the version I have from fileplanet.

 

[Fixles]

This sounds like a problem with red hat. If i were in your situation i would install from the ISO's you downloaded with a hard disk install. You will need to create a new FAT32 partition and copy the ISO's on to it. Boot with bootdisk.img. No driver disks will be required.

Hopefully when you get red hat up and running you will be able to set up the cdrom.

I instaled Red Hat 9 yesterday and was very dissapointed. Its very slow and very memory / cpu hungry when running Gnome and KDE. As much as i hate to say it WinXP is a much better operating system than Red Hat 9.

Sorry i couldnt be of more help.

 

[perrymans]

I just encountered the same problem on my Dell Inspiron 4100 with a Matsihu-jiji-something 24x CD-RW. Mine stopped after the keyboard selection.

During initialization, I can see that it recognized my drive. So I am hoping that I may have downloaded a bad .iso. Especially since

http://www.linuxiso.org

has the size listed at 638MB and what I downloaded was only about 150MB or so. I figured it was because of the compressed .iso, but Slackeware download size for it's .iso was the same as what was listed. I downloaded the first set from mirrors, now I am using the main site.

Hopefully that is what the problem is. Slackware and Debian were starting up well enough, but I wanted Red Hat as the Master since it is the most Newbie-User-Friendly.

Sean.

 

[perrymans]

It's official! My first RH9 CD1 download was 152MB. My current CD1 download is at 154MB and going.

You have bad .iso images.

Sean.