[german_hero]

Hey guys, I am not exactly new to linux, after I have installed lots of the older Mandrakes and Suses.

But the thing is, I downloaded and burned the 3 disk set of RH9 at 8x just to make sure it all burned, verified the disks, yadda yadda yadda... Go to install it, weird, I can't boot the CD... I can boot my XP cd, but not RH. So I use a win98 boot disk and go to install redhat and it says it can't find its CD on any of my CDROM drives. I switched the disk in all my drives, i verified the disks AGAIN, but still nothing...


What am I doing wrong?!?!


Thx!

[Squashman]

Did you verify the MD5 checksums before you burned the ISO files.

[lynch]

If the CDs were corrupted the the mediacheck utility could be bad too.
Here's the sums:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin...so/i386/MD5SUM

[german_hero]

ya, i used the checksums when I downloaded the files...

For some reason I can't boot from CD off of any of my burned copies of my OSes... This is odd, the mobo is a Iwill dvd266-urn, this is my second one, the first board still boots off of the CDs, and the CDROM drives are the same between the machines.

Anymore ideas?

[german_hero]

Well, I got XP installed, but I am still wondering why my linux won't go...


Come on! All you gurus and you can't get this? lol

[lynch]

I still think it's the media:you say all burned copies of all your OSs wont boot?Have you looked at the CDs in Windows Explorer to see if it shows all the directories/files or just the .iso?
If the XP CD booted up so you could install it then it should boot the other OSs if they are burned correctly:the bios reads the boot files on the CDs and should just ....boot
Try using the rawrite utility in the CD#1's /dosutils directory and attempt to install with a boot floppy.
HTH
lynch

[german_hero]

Rawrite? Please explain

[lynch]

Rawrite is a dos/win32 utility that creates a Linux installation bootdisk.
Here's Redhat's guide.If the win32 version is not on your CD#1 then you can get it here.
HTH
lynch