trying to wing it on an install to a P5-120Mhz machine

[Roger Beever]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 22:05, Frank Miceli wrote:
> I've seen other posts similar to this, but I still
> can't find my answer:
> 
> When I try to perform a CD install of FC2 on my old
> 120 Mhz non-pro pentium machine, I get:
> 
> ISOLINUX: 2.08 2003-12-12
> isolinux: loading spec packet failed, trying to wing
> it...
> isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed.
> 
> I verified my CD is good (it boots on 3 other newer
> machines without a problem.
> I checked the bios : the latest bios for this mother
> board is 9/1998. 
> I checked the setup and didn't have many parms that
> could be changed.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Or is it time to bury this old machine and build
> something with newer hardware? The machine is
> currently running an old version of Redhat (and not
> very well, I might add).
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank M.
When I put RH9 on a similar machine I discover by accident that one of
the other console screens had messages indicating the CD Rom was not
fast enough I swapped it for something a bit faster and the install
worked.
YMMV 
Regards Roger