Cannot install FC2

[Bill Tetens]

!. the CD rom iis an IDe unit
2. It is on the secondary IDE controller
3. It is on an IDE controller
4. The only thing I have you could call self booting is a game.  If I 
have anything else I don't know what it is.
5. I tried it with my beer stein but it kept breaking the holder off so 
I stopped using it. However the CD has some age on it. Not sure about 
the speed but is not real fast.

ceubank at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca wrote:

> That would depend on whether you have the CDROM drive installed on a 
> tertiary IDE controller (IDE2), or on a SCSI bus that you can't 
> normally boot from.
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>    1. Is the CDROM a SCSI device?
>    2. Is the CDROM on the Primary or Secondary IDE controller?
>    3. Is the CDROM on a controller not listed in 2.?
>    4. Can you boot any other bootable CD's from the suspect CDROM drive?
>    5. Did you use your CDROM drive as a coffee cup holder at some
>       point? Hehehe
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> Good luck,
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> Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tetens
> Sent: August 12, 2004 2:34 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Cannot install FC2
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> I forgot to answer that one.  yes it is configured as the primary boot 
> device and the hard disk is second and the floppy is third.  Does the 
> CD need any drivers or the like to read the CD?
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> webid at cfl.rr.com <mailto:webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:01, Bill Tetens wrote:
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>No joy in mudville.  Still had the files downloaded by bit torrent and
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>I burned a new disk 1 using ISO and the orginial file.  Still does not
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>work and I get the same error message.  
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>So did you verify in the bios that the CDrom is configured as a boot
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>device and listed ahead of the harddisk drive?
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>zuki269 at netscape.net <mailto:zuki269 at netscape.net> wrote:
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>I think the problem has been found.  I burned them as data so I will
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>burn them as ISO files and let you know how it turns out.  Knew it
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>had to be something I done.  
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>Thanks everyone.....
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>webid at cfl.rr.com <mailto:webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:08, Bill Tetens wrote:
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>Totally new to Linux and am trying to install Fedora on a computer with 
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>a blank HDD.  I put disk one in the CD and changed the boot order 
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>putting the CD Rom first.  
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>The following error message is displayed after the CD appears to be checked.
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>Reboot and select proper boot device
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>or insert boot media in selectefd boot device.
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>The CD passed the checksum  so I am assuming that it is OK but don't 
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>have a clue where to go now.  I know something is wrong but what.
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>Help would be more than appreciated.
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>Thanks
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>Welcome aboard!
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>Most likely you need to configure your bios to boot from the CDrom
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>drive.  
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>The next most likely problem is that when you burned the CDs you did not
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>burn them as images.  In you CD burner software there should be an
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>option to burn the CD as an iso or image, then select the iso file you
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>downloaded.  This will burn a bootable CD.  If you just burned the iso
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>as data to the CD that will not work.
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>My money is on the bios settings.  
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