Red Hat 7.3 installation problems

[safra]

Hi,

I downloaded the 3 Red Hat 7.3 iso files and burned them to CD-ROM's. Created a bootup disk with the boot.img file because I can not boot up from CDROM.

Booted and all seems fine. Then after, choosing the installation media, I kept on receiving the following message:

"The Red Hat linux CD was not found in any of your CD ROM drivers. Please insert the Red Hat Linux CD and retry"

Following the installation tips, I then tried to boot with "Linux mediacheck". According to the installation files it should then promt me to insert a CDROM, but it doesnot and continues the same way as a standard boot ("Enter" only).

It asks for the installation language, keyboard type and installation media (all in dos windows).

What is going wrong and how can I check if the CDROM's where burned correctly?

Thanks,

Ron

 

[fluid11]

Make sure you type the mediacheck command exactly as shown. I don't remember what it was off hand, but I think it was "linux mediacheck", and not "Linux mediacheck".

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[safra]

I double checked on that, still the same result.

Ron

 

[safra]

I read something in the installation manual:

"Note: ISO images are not saved to CD-ROMs in the same way as regular data files."

What does this mean? It seems that the files on the CDROM's are exact copies of the filed downloaded.

btw. Could the fact that I used Ahead Nero in windows to burn the CDROM's cause the problems?

Ron

 

[fluid11]

Why can't you boot from the CDROM? Does your BIOS not allow it, or is there something wrong with your discs?

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[fluid11]

I use Nero to burn ISO images also. If you selected File - Burn Image and then browsed for the valhalla-i386-disc1.iso file, then you shouldn't have a problem.

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[safra]

Thanks, that did it! (new to burning images too )
Ron

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi ..
I've been reading the above, tried all the above suggestions and i'm still having the problem

I've tried writing the images to cd via Ahead Nero & Roxio Easy CD ..

Any other ideas ?

Thanks

 

[fluid11]

If the above doesn't work, most likely your .iso images are bad. What is the error message?


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[Guest_imported]

Hi ...

The CD boots up ok, i'm then prestened with a text based screen. From there i press enter to install linux within Graphics Mode ...

Then after selecting my country region, and media location (which is CDROM)

I recieve the following:

"The Red Hat linux CD was not found in any of your CD ROM drivers. Please insert the Red Hat Linux CD and retry"

Any Ideas ?

Do you still think the images are bad ?

Thanks for your help ...

 

[fluid11]

I don't remember a Red Hat installation asking for the media location. It already knows where it is since you got that far. I would say your images are bad. Just re-download them from

http://www.linuxiso.org,

http://www.redhat.com,

or linux.tucows.com.


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[biatch]

i also have been having the same problem, and i'd want to hope my images aren't bad, at over 600megs a pop, and on a 3gig per month isp cap, in no way can i download them again.

Though default nero burnt them track-at-once
maybe i should try disc at once...
would that make much of a difference?

 

[fluid11]

yes, try it. I thought disc at once was the default, but I'm not sure. It can't hurt with CDR's being so cheap these days.

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[Guest_imported]

I've re-downloaded the first image from the different source (tucows) and it work fine

Thanks for your help !!!!