I am trying to install fedora-fc2 on a pc. i have successfully downloaded and burnt to cd the four iso images. i have even burnt the boot.iso and copied the diskboot.image file onto a zip-100 disk (using dd). (both of these camee from ISO disk #1) I would have guessed i was all set, but noooo....
the PC on which i am a attempting to install Fedora will not recognize either the boot.iso or the zip (a usb device) as bootable.
I am certain i have copied the images onto their respective media properly. why? because I can see their contents (from another RH 9.0 PC):
The diskboot.image file dd-ed onto the zip as a bunch of .msg, .bin, .sys, .cfg files plus a vmlinuz.
The boot.iso CD consists of a TRANS.tbl file and a directory called isolinux
that contains the same files as the (diskboot.image) zip disk)
It almost makes sense to me that the boot.iso is not a bootable media becuse i would not have expected the boot files to be in a directory (isolinux) but at the top level! I almost wonder if the boot.iso file that came with the first Fedora disk was incorrectly put together.
i do not know why the pc will not boot off the zip disk. the bios has support for it, since it lets me choose 'zip100' from a menu of devices to check at boot time. my guess is that it's because it's a USB device and not an IDE device? anyway, all my USB-related bios setting are enabled, so i do not think it's a setting. maybe my bios simply does not support booting from USB devices, period.
so...what do i do? any ideas?
eg, is there a way for me to split the diskboot.image across multiple floppies and boot up like that?
(for the record, the target PC is currently running RH 9.0 as well.
so i tried copying the 4 Fedora ISO files to a 2nd hard drive on that
PC and, using my trusty RH 9.0 floppy boot.img, i booted up the PC and
tried to perform an install from the local hard drive. however, the RH
install stuff was too smart for that to work since it would not recognize
the Fedora ISOs. Not surprising i suppose and maybe not even smart on my part,
but i was/am getting desperate.)
thanks,
- rich
Whoa! Take a deep breath.
Surely, if that target machine has a BIOS option for booting from a zip drive and even groks the existence of USB, there's an option for booting from CDROM. *IF* you really have burned your CDs correctly, the 1st CD will be bootable. If you mount that 1st CD on your RH9.0 machine, you should see this:
[rj@mavis rj]$ ls -la /mnt/cdrom1
total 191
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 13 04:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 18 13:30 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 248 May 13 04:02 autorun
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 May 13 04:27 .discinfo
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 5611 May 13 04:02 eula.txt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 May 13 04:27 Fedora
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 18385 May 13 04:02 GPL
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 May 13 04:27 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 May 13 04:27 isolinux
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 12667 May 13 04:02 README-Accessibility
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 5299 May 13 04:02 README-en
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 7465 May 13 04:02 README-en.html
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 47589 May 13 04:02 RELEASE-NOTES-en
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 67109 May 13 04:02 RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 1910 May 13 04:02 RPM-GPG-KEY
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 1706 May 13 04:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 1519 May 13 04:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 1105 May 13 04:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 1076 May 13 04:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
-rw-r--r-- 9 root root 1232 May 13 04:02 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4056 May 13 04:39 TRANS.TBL
[rj@mavis rj]$
(w/o the line wrapping :-[.)
Anything else is wrong and you'll need to burn a new set of CDs, burning the .iso as an IMAGE rather than as a FILE.
Good luck!
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