Installation fails

[pierre.baruch]

At 18:53 21/02/2005, you wrote:
>pierre.baruch wrote:
>>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
>
>If you disable the Creative CD2422ECD-ROM in the BIOS, can you then boot 
>from the SCSI CD-ROM?
>
>Paul.
>
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No, the ASUS BIOS can boot from a SCSI HDD, but not from a SCSI CD.
Should I try with an other standard CD drive ?