I have downloaded three ISO image called strike.ISO 1,2,3 from red hat.com thru cute-ftp. And I have Nero5 and easy CD creator 6. When I click the first ISO image file then it will automatically take me to easy CD creator and ready to burn the CD, which I did and succeed. However, the second and the third doesn't work because it gave warning message saying that the ISO file is not a valid image!!! Also, I have IsoBuster program to open and check for ISO and other files. The first strike ISO is perfect and the second and third is no good. Sorry, I am newbie to Linux and planning to install on my existing window xp and 2000. Do i need all three CDs or just the first part and the rest is variety of applications for linux???!!!

Thanks!

Ibe

If you are having errors such as that, then you possibly do not have a correct version of the files, and you will most likely need all three. there are instructions at linuxiso.org for most common windows burning programs.

I download from redhat.com through ftp so what else ca it go wrong? Somebody help me!!!!!!!!

try P2P downloading that's how i got the basic version of mdk9.1 to try...and alot of times thats faster then ftp d/l.

that durned disc 2
I think everyone has had trouble with that one

try this version

http://www.rpmfind.net/BitTorrent/

When I set up Red Hat 9.0 I had to download the Disk # 3, 4 times and burned it each time, each time it would fail on the media test. finally it passed, and installed fine. If you do a minimum install you could probably get away with only one disk, but you wouldn't get alot of the programs you probably want.

I got into the habit of loop-mounting the ISO to check before I burn. I had it once that the md5sum panned out and still it was a corrupt image, i.e. an actual broken image, not a download scramble.

Saves lot of time and (if you are using CD-R's), plastic.

losetup /dev/loop1 <your isoimage>
mount -t iso9660 /dev/loop /mnt/cdrom
<see if it works>
umount /mnt/cdrom
losetup -d /dev/loop1

mlp