Installation fails

[Paul Howarth]

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.