I have a problem and I'm starting to think I should just give it up.

I have DL'ed all the ISO's and installed them, and when I boot the computer via the first install disk, everything looks like it's gonna be ok. after language options, it asks where the image files are, and when I enter the CD-ROM drive, it says that the images do not exsist. I have tried to to re-DL, re-burn at slow speeds, but I still get the same error. Also, when I try to use modifiers on the root "linux" kernal (linux noprobe ect.), it seems as if these commands are completely ignored. Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi there, well, i believe you need to burn the CDs with the option 'create an Image of the ISO files'. by doing this it will extract the files from the ISOs and write them to the CD....

good luck!

Moving to RedHat Forum

Welcome to LQ Both of you!

Cool

Also, where did you get the ISOs?? try Red Hat's FTP or linuxISO.org.

My RH 9 install is modified to be in Spanish and I have had no problems during installation, also for the first time installing with these CD's you should run the MEDIA check at install time (the installer asks for it)

And another very important thing to check are the MD5 SUMS of the downloaded ISOs... you may have a corrupted ISO image.

I'm having the exact same problem as solid-dave...
Ran the media checker, all it did was start the install program and end up at the point where after choosing keyboard, language etc. it could not find the Redhat CD in any of my CD rom drives.
HELP! I was so keen to install tonight :-(

Hi

When u download a ios imahe from the RH site this a compress ed file. What u have to do is when u burn that iso file u should goto an option a that says burn image file. Thsi will uncompress that file into a cd.

What software have u tried to burn the cd with I usually use Nero and it works fine.

Hope this works
cheers

This seems to be a common problem with RH9.

I too had this problem at work. I was loading RH9 Professional onto a HP/Compaq DL380 server. This was a purchased copy, not a burned copy. Here's what happened:

1. Booted from cd-1
2. Specified keyboard layout.
3. Selected language.

At this point the 'installer' took over and could not detect the cd-rom.

According to HP's website, there is a bug in the RH9 installer which prevents it from mounting the cd device in *certain* hardware configurations. Strange, because it is 'detected' up to a certain point. I suppose it fails when the 'installer' module takes over.

I then tried our RH8 cd's (purchased, not burned) on this hardware and the install went perfectly.

I haven't researched this any further. Maybe if somebody can find a real answer (from RedHat???) it could be posted and made sticky by a moderator. If this turns out to be a valid issue, we could save some folks a lot of effort. Who knows how much time is wasted re-downloading and re-writing iso's when that is not the problem...

The cdrom just dies once you get to that point, it won't even eject, never mind detect anything. It's weird.

yeah, I guess I failed to mention the fact that I did burn them as images to the cd, if I hadn't the cd wouldn't have booted in the first place. I don't know, I might just start with a lower version and try to update to 9?

BTW, my problem has exactly the same symptoms as mudcat's and rip's.... we all understand how ISO's work.

To find out what is going on with your hardware and stuff you need a bootable linux.

http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/

The is really good stuff. I used it to completely restore a totally hosed system--the one I am typing this on. You need this even after you complete the install. Read every thing. Check out Tom's rootboot disk as well.

If RIP boots. you can find out exact hardware locations and names. You can image partitions. You can write CDs. You can partition and label drives. If RIP doesn't boot, and you read everything in the readme files for possible entries. You are SOL.

I don't understand how this will help to get the install going.

Can anyone recommend a distribution that's easy to install?

Nevermind, I've just ordered some Mandrake cd's, but I would still like to know why Redhat 9 wouldn't work.

The problem is actually rooted in the installer for Redhat 9.0. It's got a glitch where it doesn't re-activate *certain* cd-rom configs after the langauge selection. I just DL mandrake and it's installed and... well, working... as well as it should for a newbie. still got a few driver conflicts.. but past that, just scrap redhat.