Red Hat 9 disk 2 HELP!

777JR · 11-08-2003, 06:41 AM

I have purchased 2 complete new Red Hat 9 personal. one I purchased from Amazon the other from Office Depot. Here is the Prob. I boot to first Install CD. Run graphic install with no problem. first disk installs. When it asks for the second disk. I put the CD in drive and hit OK it tells me that it is not the right Red Hat CD and Ejects it. I have tried this multiple times. same message every time. I have also tried different CD-rom drives. HELP!

ranger_nemo · 11-08-2003, 09:26 AM

If a disc is bad there isn't anything you can do to fix it. You'll have to replace it. If it's a purchase, keep taking them back to where you bought them until you get one that works. Otherwise, you could get a cheap CD copy off the internet, and use that to install. Since you bought the package, you will still be able to get support from RedHat.

You might try the text install, just in case.

PinonJay · 12-13-2003, 12:16 PM

Hi - I have the same problem, I exchanged the disks at a Best Buy and still get the insert disk 2 prompt - have you figured it out? Maybe it's a bad software lot, but I difficult to believe and think maybe it's something else. I'm trying to install with a CD-RW. I also tried the text install and it blew up at the same point.

-pJ

krfulton · 12-15-2003, 10:36 PM

I have the same problem with disk 2! I purchased the package from Best Buy, too.
I just want to download a good copy and get this thing going.
Are there any sites that provide this download?

B1TW1SE · 12-16-2003, 04:38 AM

www.redhat.com ?

wiesnerem · 12-16-2003, 05:06 PM

I am glad I have company in this annoying issue. I wonder if we can download a correct working Disk2 only and run the installation. I also purchased the RH9 box from amazon for 35 dollars, had the problem described above, and obtained a replacement from the vendor, only to find the same obstacle. Red Hat advises that we try a hard disk install which I am not sure how to run.

krfulton · 12-16-2003, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by B1TW1SE
www.redhat.com ?

Sounds easy doesn't it?

Their FTP server keeps kicking me out, hence the post.

Thanks!

transeunt · 12-16-2003, 11:14 PM

Yes you can download it from

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewmirrors.php/465

thats the link for mirror sites so you dont have to wait for redhat's site

you should be able to click one of those and get it ASAP

save it then burn the ISO using nero.
Its 646 Mb about 30 minutes or so on my connection to get.
If you dont have broadband contact RedHat they should mail a new cd.

Sorry to hear you all got bunk cd's

AceTech747 · 12-17-2003, 05:24 AM

I downloaded all three iso's and did an upgrade from RH8 to RH9 with no problems. Your best bet is to download the ISO.

PinonJay · 12-19-2003, 05:19 PM

I tried the iso image and the error still came up. I think it's probably a compatibility issue with my motherbroad (ECS).

-pJ

AceTech747 · 12-22-2003, 01:58 AM

What does the error say?

krfulton · 12-22-2003, 05:13 AM

The iso was the answer to my problem! However it took quite a while to download, I think all the FTP sites are either throttled or overloaded.

PinonJay · 01-04-2004, 09:47 PM

I finally borrowed a copy of RH8 from a friend and it loaded fine - so I'm not sure what the problem was.

The error was the second disk was not being recognized, it read something like "This is not a Red Hat disk"

-pJ