Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10127
Installer/ISO fails
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:54 EDT
I downloaded the ISO image (6.1-i386.iso) and burned it to a cd. I also downloaded the boot.img (my cd-rom drive is not "bootable"). After going through the first couple screens it asks where to install from, I select cd-rom and installer says it can't find a RedHat cd. According the RedHat's download instructions, it says to download the iso image, write it to a cd and download the proper boot image. It also says that you can get the boot image off of the cd, but all my cd shows is the ISO image, how do you access all of the files. Either the instructions for ISO installing are sketchy or something else is wrong here? Please Advise-Thanks
This sounds like you've mis-burned the CD. Basically, the "ISO image" is a raw image of the required CD-ROM, and needs to be treated as such. it sounds like what you have instead is it burned as a file on the CD-ROM. If you're using Easy-CD to burn yourt images, you should store the ISO image on hard drive as a .iso file (ie, one with a name ending ".iso") and double-click on the said file. This causes Easy-CD to recognise it as a raw ISO image. If you instead select the image with Easy-CD's file selector, Easy-CD assumes it's a file to be put on CD, and creates an ISO image of a CD containing that file instead. This sounds like what you've created.
This is a problem with the way that you made your CDROM. Just as the other user said, sounds like you put the .iso image on the CD as a file rather than as raw data.