unable to install

[Peter Silcock]

Matt Morgan wrote:

> On 06/18/2004 11:22 AM, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
>> I have checked the MD5 Checksums, yet I still can’t install off the 
>> CD’s that I have burned. I have unpacked the ISO’s and tried to 
>> install. I have burned the ISO’s straight onto CD’s, but neither are 
>> recognized at bootup, and neither install the OS to the machine. WHAT 
>> IS THE ISSUE?!!!!!!!!
>>
> One common problem among people who haven't done this before is that 
> you may be burning the ISO onto the CD as a file, rather than an 
> image. Forgive me if this is not the case, it's not clear from your 
> message. When burning an ISO image, you normally have to select a 
> special command to transfer the image, rather than just copy the file 
> onto the CD.
>
> When you put those CD's into CD-rom drive on a working computer, what 
> do you see? Do you see a single file named *.iso? Or do you see a 
> whole bunch of files and directories?
>
>
>
As Matt points out, writing a file rather than an ISO image may not be 
the problem here.  But similar questions seem to appear regularly on the 
mailing list, so I thought it might be useful to refer interested 
parties to http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/192, which contains a 
useful HOWTO.  One reservation: if the CD writer is not mapped to a SCSI 
device, you will need to use "dev=/dev/hdc" or similar, not "dev=0,4,0" 
or similar, on the command line.
Hope this helps,
Peter Silcock