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Red Hat 9 and CD-ROM Boot


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02-Jan-2004, 02:43 PM #1
Red Hat 9 and CD-ROM Boot
I wish to make my single boot XP Compaq into a Dual Boot XP/RH9 machine. I d/led the three ISOs from the Red Hat ftp site and burned them onto three CD-Rs. Now, I have set the boot order to CD-ROM, Floppy, Hard Drive, and Network, but the CD is not booting it to install Red Hat like I read that it should. What do I need to do?
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02-Jan-2004, 03:43 PM #2
Does is boot off the XP CD?

If not, your drive will not support this.

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02-Jan-2004, 08:50 PM #3
Look at the CDs you burned. Is it just one file on each disk, or are there several? Did you get the md5sums and check them against the iso files?
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02-Jan-2004, 10:12 PM #4
There is only one file per disc, and I didn't do the md5sum thing... how would I do that? And do I need to download the ISOs again, because I deleted them from my hard drive, or is there something I can do with the ones on the CD-Rs?
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03-Jan-2004, 05:51 AM #5
You can copy them back to a folder on your hard drive and use your CD burning program to create a CD from an image. Should'nt have to download them again.
Go here for some very good tips on doing this.
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03-Jan-2004, 11:15 PM #6
Okay, I've got that done and working, now when I tried to install Linux it was fine until it got to the place where I select my mouse. Here, it gave me an error : "Partition table on dev/hda is inconsistant...". I click ignore. The when I attempt to have Red Hat automatically partition my drive, it gives me this: "Could not allocate requested partitions as primary partitions" and then after I click OK it tells me that the root partition is not defined. I try partitioning manually through DiskDruid, but that doesnt work either. I have attached a (bad) screenshot i took with my digital camera of the DiskDruid window, but not of the error. Could I get some help on this please, or at least a place where I can download a partition manager for XP with decent GUI?
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