Well normally a bad cd is the cause of this - but this isn't a burned cd I take it, have you looked at the disc in windows, if so did everything appear as normal.
If so I would open up my computer and check my ide cables for the cdrom drive. If possible first, try the install on another machine to verify that the CD's are ok!
The CD is straight from the packet, not burnt, and with no scratches.
The PC has Win XP on it currently (which I planned to overwrite with Linux). When I boot XP on this system I can browse through the Redhat install CD with no errors.
I have tried boot: linux mediacheck - which gave no errors and started the install process again.
I have also tried this Red Hat CD in a Dell lattitude C800 and experience the same problem.
I have tried creating a floppy boot disk with rawritewin.exe and the boot image supplied on the Red Hat CD but this floppy will not boot the system.
It just sounds like a cd issue, especially since you tried it on a couple of machines. What type of Internet Connection do you have? If you have high speed broadband you can download any distro you want to iso images and burn those onto a CD, most are free.
Since it does seem like a CD issue, you may want to contact the people who make the book, they may be willing to send you out another CD. Other than that, I don't think there is much you can do. It sounds like a couple of files in the install part of the cd are corrupted, you can get so far, but when it reaches those files it won't go further.
dsbInspiron
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September 8th, 2005 16:00
Well normally a bad cd is the cause of this - but this isn't a burned cd I take it, have you looked at the disc in windows, if so did everything appear as normal.
If so I would open up my computer and check my ide cables for the cdrom drive. If possible first, try the install on another machine to verify that the CD's are ok!
JPH001
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September 9th, 2005 04:00
Thanks for the advice dsbInspiron,
The CD is straight from the packet, not burnt, and with no scratches.
The PC has Win XP on it currently (which I planned to overwrite with Linux). When I boot XP on this system I can browse through the Redhat install CD with no errors.
I have tried boot: linux mediacheck - which gave no errors and started the install process again.
I have also tried this Red Hat CD in a Dell lattitude C800 and experience the same problem.
I have tried creating a floppy boot disk with rawritewin.exe and the boot image supplied on the Red Hat CD but this floppy will not boot the system.
Any other suggestions?
Cheers
John
dsbInspiron
222 Posts
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September 9th, 2005 11:00
It just sounds like a cd issue, especially since you tried it on a couple of machines. What type of Internet Connection do you have? If you have high speed broadband you can download any distro you want to iso images and burn those onto a CD, most are free.
Since it does seem like a CD issue, you may want to contact the people who make the book, they may be willing to send you out another CD. Other than that, I don't think there is much you can do. It sounds like a couple of files in the install part of the cd are corrupted, you can get so far, but when it reaches those files it won't go further.