Redhat 7.3 installation problem
 

Hello, I'm very new to linux, I've been told to start out with redhat. My
problem is this, I have a bootable cdrom drive, so I have placed my redhat
7.3 cd in the drive , everything works fine it starts up the install gui,
after passing through the first few steps for languae and keyboad settings,
i get to the portion of the install where it asks for the install files, but
i doesn't give me an option to install off my cdrom. it gives me the option
to install from a nfs, ftp or http, but no option for my cdrom.

have I missed something, or is it not recognising either of my 2 cdrom
drives (LG 24x cd burner, Toshiba DVD player)

any help would be greatly appreciated

Geof Davies

I downloaded a few different distributions to see if it was something unique to redhat, I tried mandrake 8.0 which found my cdrom fine, I also tried SuSE 8.0 and found that i am getting the exact same problem as redhat


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Geof Davies

The cd drive is being recognized or else you would not be able to start the install process at all. My guess is your install disk is somehow corrupted. I would try redownloading the first disk image and burning that again. The other two disks might be ok.

do a md5sum <iso-name> to see if it is corrupted......compare the result with that provided by
redhat at it's site (for the same iso)......

this is a very later reply.
has the same issue when doing the RedHat 7.3 installtion on an Intel
mainboard.
the way to install OS from cdrom is to set the "Advance => Drive Configuration" to "Legacy" from the mainboard bios.
the bios version in my case is bf86510a.86a.0033.p06.