Re: Cannot install FC2

Some more info.. Just for ?GEE Whizz I moved the CD Rom to the primary IDE with the HDD. The HDD is master and the CD is slave.  No help.

I realized that I did have a self boot disc and hunted it up.  It is a copy of KNOPPIX that runs from the CD and it fired up just fine.  

Hope some of this helps.  Maybe It would be better if I ordered a copy of the Fedora FC2 if it is available on the internet.  Maybe the whole problem is with the CD's I made?????


zuki269@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

!. the CD rom iis an IDe unit
2. It is on the secondary IDE controller
3. It is on an IDE controller
4. The only thing I have you could call self booting is a game.  If I have anything else I don't know what it is.
5. I tried it with my beer stein but it kept breaking the holder off so I stopped using it. However the CD has some age on it. Not sure about the speed but is not real fast.

ceubank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

That would depend on whether you have the CDROM drive installed on a tertiary IDE controller (IDE2), or on a SCSI bus that you can’t normally boot from.

 

1. Is the CDROM a SCSI device?
2. Is the CDROM on the Primary or Secondary IDE controller?
3. Is the CDROM on a controller not listed in 2.?
4. Can you boot any other bootable CD’s from the suspect CDROM drive?
5. Did you use your CDROM drive as a coffee cup holder at some point? Hehehe

 

Good luck,

Chris

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill Tetens
Sent: August 12, 2004 2:34 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2

 

I forgot to answer that one.  yes it is configured as the primary boot device and the hard disk is second and the floppy is third.  Does the CD need any drivers or the like to read the CD?

webid@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:01, Bill Tetens wrote:

No joy in mudville.  Still had the files downloaded by bit torrent and

I burned a new disk 1 using ISO and the orginial file.  Still does not

work and I get the same error message.  

So did you verify in the bios that the CDrom is configured as a boot

device and listed ahead of the harddisk drive?

zuki269@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I think the problem has been found.  I burned them as data so I will

burn them as ISO files and let you know how it turns out.  Knew it

had to be something I done.  

Thanks everyone.....

webid@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:08, Bill Tetens wrote:

Totally new to Linux and am trying to install Fedora on a computer with 

a blank HDD.  I put disk one in the CD and changed the boot order 

putting the CD Rom first.  

The following error message is displayed after the CD appears to be checked.

Reboot and select proper boot device

or insert boot media in selectefd boot device.

The CD passed the checksum  so I am assuming that it is OK but don't 

have a clue where to go now.  I know something is wrong but what.

Help would be more than appreciated.

Thanks

Welcome aboard!

Most likely you need to configure your bios to boot from the CDrom

drive.  

The next most likely problem is that when you burned the CDs you did not

burn them as images.  In you CD burner software there should be an

option to burn the CD as an iso or image, then select the iso file you

downloaded.  This will burn a bootable CD.  If you just burned the iso

as data to the CD that will not work.

My money is on the bios settings.  

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