On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 22:05, Frank Miceli wrote: > I've seen other posts similar to this, but I still > can't find my answer: > > When I try to perform a CD install of FC2 on my old > 120 Mhz non-pro pentium machine, I get: > > ISOLINUX: 2.08 2003-12-12 > isolinux: loading spec packet failed, trying to wing > it... > isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed. > > I verified my CD is good (it boots on 3 other newer > machines without a problem. > I checked the bios : the latest bios for this mother > board is 9/1998. > I checked the setup and didn't have many parms that > could be changed. > > Any ideas? > Or is it time to bury this old machine and build > something with newer hardware? The machine is > currently running an old version of Redhat (and not > very well, I might add). > > Thanks, > Frank M. When I put RH9 on a similar machine I discover by accident that one of the other console screens had messages indicating the CD Rom was not fast enough I swapped it for something a bit faster and the install worked. YMMV Regards Roger
