Installation fails

[pierre.baruch]

At 15:10 21/02/2005, Paul Howarth wrote:
>pierre.baruch wrote:
>>I am new to Linux, coming from Windows 2000.
>>I got the set of  4 CD's for installing Fedora Core 2. The CD's have been 
>>used for installation on other PC's with success.
>>I have a Pentium II, mothercard ASUS PL97, 2 HDD (20 and 3 Gb), a 
>>Creative CD2422ECD-ROM drive and a SCSI CD drive.
>>When I boot from the CD, the initialization runs correctly, but, after 
>>the screens asking to choose language, Keyboard, etc I got an 
>>announcement: "CD ROM absent, insert CD 1", although the CD is in the 
>>drive and was properly recognized at boot.
>>I tried to boot from the SCSI CD Drive, but the BIOS does not accept it.
>>Who can help ?
>
>Try the following:
>
>1. When it says the CD-ROM is absent, try putting the CD in the other 
>drive at that point.
>2. Try disabling the SCSI CD drive in the BIOS or SCSI BIOS for the 
>duration of the installation.
>3. Try physically disconnecting the SCSI CD drive for the duration of the 
>installation.
>
>Paul.
>
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I tried, without success. Apparently, BIOS recognizes the CD drive, but not 
the Fedora shell
Pierre