Bug 10127 - Installer/ISO fails
Summary: Installer/ISO fails
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-03-11 19:21 UTC by Alex Lepak
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-21 20:15:49 UTC
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Description Alex Lepak 2000-03-11 19:21:06 UTC
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

Comment 1 Riley H Williams 2000-03-11 19:37:59 UTC
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.

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2000-03-21 20:15:59 UTC
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.


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