Booting Rh9 From Cd Probs
 

After a long time thinking about it I`ve decided to give RedHat a try, so I downloaded the 3 iso`s for Redhat9 and burned them to cd`s, made myself a 5 gig partition so I can keep my windows xp pro installation and put in the cd in the drive and re-booted. everything I`d read suggests that it should boot from the cd, but it isn`t happening. Any ideas?

Which ISOs did you download? You should have the i386Psyche versions for a PC.

Have you extracted the ISO to a CD or just copied the downloaded file onto one?

The extracted ISO will be shown as 'Red Hat Linux_i3' in Windows and has 30 files on it including an 'autorun'.

ps I've fought long and hard with Red Hat 9 and just about got fed up (poor multimedia/modem/video support). SuSE 8.2 seems far superior......

Version: 9 (shrike) - the iso was extracted then burned.. not heard of suse - I`ll do a bit of research, thanks :-)

Might want to verify with md5sum program that the download was not corrupted. Did you at least view the boot CD contents in windows after it was burned? Did it look correct?

Have you configured the motherboard BIOS to boot from CD first?

Do you see any Redhat boot screens at all or does it just boot straight from the hard drive

Are you sure your trying to boot from the 1st install CD?

yep, looked fine.. as for the motherboard bios - make it a point not to mess there too much, but my windows cd boots from disc no probs..
not seen any redhat screens at all - so far I`ve put in cd 1 and turned on the comp, its just booted into xp as usual - if I put in the windows disc I can install a second copy of xp into another partition, I just assumed that redhat would do the same..

Redhat should do the same.

So it must mean that the 1st CD is corrupted some how. Might want to try downloading from another site or try to create a boot floppy disk from the images in the /images directory on the 1st CD. Use rawritewin to create the floppy disk.

Try burning at 1x. Fixed a problem I had with the 2nd RedHat iso disk.

trinity

Browse the CD see if you can see all the files on it...
Had a problem where I would get a cyclical redundancy error and it would never do anything with one .iso I had...

If you extracted the ISO before burning, then that is your problem. The boot sector would not be burned onto the CD, just the files.

You need to get software which burns ISO's to CD, without extracting the files first.

-Tefal

ah, that`ll be it then - I extracted the iso first... I have nero, which should burn the iso, but it says "Unexpected file format" and refuses when I try..