Hello all,

I'm trying to piece together a Linux workstation and I determined that the CD-Rom drive in the original box was bad. I replaced it with a known good CD-RW drive from an old HP Windows desktop. I know the drive is good, if I place a windows bootable CD in the drive and power up the system it boots. If I boot the workstation with no CD installed the old Red hat 9 boots from the HD. The PC is a 586 class and has 256 Mb of RAM and about 80 Gb of free drive space.

What I want to do is burn a CD with the latest Fedora distro so I can update the ancient Red Hat on this workstation, but short of finding someone else with a working CD-R or CD-RW what can I do?

The startup shows that the CD-RW mounts as a ro ISO9660. If I try to change the options to add rw I then get the error message "maybe you should try IDE-SCSI and use dev/sda". Will that work in this case? I never heard of IDE-SCSI combined.

Thanks for helping,

*SR*

How are you burning the CD? I assume you are using Windows 7. Are you right clicking on the file and selecting burn disk image or just drag and dropping the file into the CDRW folder?

CD RW discs are troublesome. Burn a CD-R disc instead. It may boot in the CD-RW drive. If there are IO errors during the installation, try burning a small net install disc, which you can boot to, and then install from the internet or a samba or nfs share.

Thanks to both of you, burning to a CD-R did the trick, it seems. I do now have the file system mounting in fstab and I'm able to access content. It appears that I won't have the R/W functionality though, at least until I install Fedora 14. At least now I can do the install. Thanks again.

*SR*