Dual Boot

odd · 06-08-2004, 07:47 AM

Hey I'm trying to set up dual booting because I need to use my packard bell graphics tablet ! and there are no compatible linux drivers for it.

I already have Redhat 9 installed which I want to be my primary OS I also have a windows xp .iso that I burnt onto a cdrom. But ! when I reboot I get the 'press any key to boot from cdrom' message just before grub. When I hit a key though it just hangs? Does anyone know what I might need to do. Thanks

marghorp · 06-08-2004, 08:25 AM

Are you sure you burnt the iso from image, or did you burn Windows.iso on the cdrom. Do check that out. There should be a file setup.exe on the cdrom. If that doesn't work. Well you have some bad CD.

There is no other explanation, as far as I am concerned.

Good luck!

odd · 06-08-2004, 08:44 AM

I burnt it from windowsblarblar.iso how would I burn it from the image? and yea there is a setup.exe on the disk I did burn.

marghorp · 06-08-2004, 08:46 AM

Maybe the iso was not complete. If it was complete you shouldn't get any errors at this stage. So my best guess is that the iso was not complete and some of the key files for the installation are missing.

odd · 06-08-2004, 08:54 AM

I didnt' get any errors when burning it to the cd. It was a compressed zip file, inside that was an exe and I ran that with wine to get the .iso. I'll try to extract it all again then burn it on to another cd.

marghorp · 06-08-2004, 08:56 AM

with wine?
Maybe that's the problem
I don't know

But it smells like a bad iso to me