[Henqe]

Hey there!

I have a AMD cpu (old) and 64mb ram, and it's running win98se. I want to install Red Hat 8.0 and i have the floppy boot disk but when i come to the option where they want me to choose install method (either CD-Rom or Hdd) i press cd-rom because i have it burnt on 5 cd's. And the cd's are correct. Why does it say "The Red Hat Linux was not found in any of your Cd-Rom drives. Please insert the Red Hat Linux cd and press Ok"

Please help me!

Thanks

/Henke

[lynch]

How old is the CD drive?If it's as old as the rest of your system it could be that it cant see cd-rs.Some older CD drives have trouble reading burned CDs.
HTH
lynch

[Henqe]

Oh i see!
Thank's mate i have 74$ do you think i could order a good cd-rom for that?

[Henqe]

Hey again, i tested the cd on my p4, 1.6ghz, 256 ddr ram, and it didn't work either. Linux is stupid it seemes like it's programed to be installed on an already linux kernel/computer!? How dumb is that Well what should i do now?

[codejockey]

OK, I admit I'm going out on a limb here ...

Is it possible that your boot disk does not include support for the CDROM drive(s) that you've tried? Are your CDROM drives IDE, SCSI or perhaps something more exotic? Have you tried booting from the installation CD (on either the older or the newer machine)?

Any info appreciated.

[Henqe]

Hi, how do i look if it's SCSì? anywai in bios it says something about scsi, another thing is that it's not 64mb ram, it's 94.

I'v created the RH boot disk from the rawwrite.exe from dosutils folder in RH8.0 cd so it's fresh

But i can't believe it can boot other cd's like DemoLinux (www.demolinux.org) but it can't boot Slackware and Red Hat, that must be something wrong with the contect of the cd? Have you ever tried to install red Hat on a Windows computor?

[codejockey]

If you created the boot disk yourself, you had to select which kernel to include. If, for example, you selected a kernel that did not include SCSI support, and your hard drive was SCSI, you would not be able to recognize the drive properly. In slackware, the basic, IDE-based kernel is bare.i. There is a separate kernel with SCSI disk support. RedHat may have something similar. First step: determine what type of disk you have, and then try creating another boot floppy with the kernel that supports that drive. It's certainly possible that other distributions boot with a kernel that supports IDE and SCSI, for example, so your CD may be fine.

If your BIOS doesn't identify the drive as SCSI, you can always check the cable that connects the drive to the controller (either on the motherboard or on a separate card). SCSI cables are typically wider than IDE cables, so this may provide a clue.

Hope this helps.

[Henqe]

Hey, im so sorry im the idiot, i burnet wrong, i downloaded the Iso and extracted it with winISO and then burned the files

I'm so sorry! but thank's for helping me anyway! Thanks!

[codejockey]

You're welcome -- and the good news is that you got it sorted out and things are now working! We all make mistakes -- and none of us was born knowing this stuff.

[Henqe]

Ok thank's anyway, I really love this Forum,

[lynch]

Glad to hear it's working for you,now.
Thanks for posting the resolution to your problem.
lynch