On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 07:08 -0800, David Brown wrote: > Hello Fedora Core gurus, I have downloaded the Fedora FC3-i386-DVD > Roxio Easy CD Creator. I have successfully burned this image to a > bootable CD. The target machine is a: Compaq Proliant ML350. 1 gig RAM > and two 2.2ghrz processors with 512kb cache and 2 SCSI disks of > undetermined size but currently MS windows server 2003 is installed. > The aim is to ovewrite the current OS with the linux OS. The newly > burned Fedore Core 3 CD boots on startup OK but if I choose graphical > or text mode install I get graphical anyway. From the graphical screen > I click OK for the next two dialog screens for Language and Keyboard. > Next, I get the following prompt: > > What type of media contains the packages to be installed? > > Local CDROM > > At this point when I click OK the following error condition is > returne: > > The Fedora Core CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please > insert the Fedora Core CD and press OK to retry. > > Please advise, > Geezenslaw Don't know if it helps but I am writing this on an ML350 (2 x 2.8GHz Xeon, SmartArray 5300, 5 x 36GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 drives, 1 x 18GB 15,000 RPM Ultra320 drive, 2GB memory, CD-ROM drive). I did my install in text mode over NFS and it worked flawlessly. I don't have a DVD drive or else I'd try to replicate your problem. Just a thought - is the DVD drive a slave on the second IDE channel? Try making it the master drive on the first IDE channel and see if that works. -- A: Because people read from top to bottom. Q: Why is top-posting bad? Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
