On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:28 -0600, Ronald wrote: > Hi All, > > my name is Ron and I am pretty new to the LINUX world. I have worked > on UNIX but have never done any administration work and over the past > year have begun working with LINUX and am trying to learn about the > administration so I can maintain a copy of the OS on my PC at home. > Eventually I plan on having Oracle insalled too, as that is my primary > field of expertise. > > I have RedHat 9 installed on an older PIII and it appears to run just > fine and did have RedHat AS 2.1 on my main PC, never could get my HP > print driver installed, and have uninstalled that in favor of working > with Fedora. I have downloaded Fedora Core 2 to install however I am > unable to get the install disks to work and would love to have some > insight on how to get this installed. I did go through and look at > the archives for Sept, I know Sept just started however I believe this > has to be something really simple and was hoping someone could point > me to an archive thread with the solution or provide the solution for > me. The details for my system are below along with the home dir of > my first Fedora CD and the message I am getting. > > Dell 1.2 P IIII Precision 330 > 1 gig RAM > 120 gig HD, OS Windows 2000 > 80 gig HD, OS <hopefully LINUX> > When I try to boot from the 1st CD I downloaded nothing happens, this > is the home dir of this CD from a Windows listing: > Name Type > SRPMS File Folder The .iso you downloaded is for the Source RPMs. these disks are for information use (unless you have a system and really want to build it from scratch) Go back to the website and download the *.iso files that do not contain the letters .srpm in the file name and you will be o.k. Scott > .discinfo DISCINFO File > eula.txt Text Document > GPL File > RPM-GPG_KEY File > RPM-GPG-KEY-beta File > RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora File > RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide File > RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test File > RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide File > TRANS.TBL TBL File > > Since the first disc does not appear to be a bootable cd I have > created the restore and boot cd's to boot up RecHat. However when I > reboot with either CD I get to the installation window asking for the > Fedora Core CD and get the following message: > "The Fedora Core CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please > insert the Fedora Core CD and press OK to retry." > > I have tried putting in all 4 of my RedHat CD's to no avail, and have > even tried leaving my boot and restore CD's in the drive without any > luck either. I have even tried updating the tbl file to include the > directory/path to point to the CD in the drive which didn't work > either. As I am new to LINUX administration any help would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Ron > -- When in doubt -- Vote 'Em out!
