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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?
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..
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.
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...
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..
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