Cannot install FC2

[Bill Tetens]

Some more info.. Just for ?GEE Whizz I moved the CD Rom to the primary 
IDE with the HDD. The HDD is master and the CD is slave.  No help.

I realized that I did have a self boot disc and hunted it up.  It is a 
copy of KNOPPIX that runs from the CD and it fired up just fine.  

Hope some of this helps.  Maybe It would be better if I ordered a copy 
of the Fedora FC2 if it is available on the internet.  Maybe the whole 
problem is with the CD's I made?????


zuki269 at netscape.net wrote:

> !. 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>>    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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>>  
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>> Good luck,
>>
>> 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
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> webid at cfl.rr.com <mailto:webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 17:01, Bill Tetens wrote:
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>>  
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>>No joy in mudville.  Still had the files downloaded by bit torrent and
>>
>>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
>>
>>had to be something I done.  
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>> 
>>
>>Thanks everyone.....
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>> 
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>>webid at cfl.rr.com <mailto:webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>>      
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>>On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:08, Bill Tetens wrote:
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>>  
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>>        
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>>Totally new to Linux and am trying to install Fedora on a computer with 
>>
>>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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>> 
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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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>> 
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>>The CD passed the checksum  so I am assuming that it is OK but don't 
>>
>>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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>> 
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>>Thanks
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>>          
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>>Welcome aboard!
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>> 
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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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>> 
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>>The next most likely problem is that when you burned the CDs you did not
>>
>>burn them as images.  In you CD burner software there should be an
>>
>>option to burn the CD as an iso or image, then select the iso file you
>>
>>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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