Core 4 installation on an old Gateway

H Q ecomeasurement at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 19 03:41:40 UTC 2005


Here's the lastest --I tried burning the ISO images at 4X on the newer Dell, 
and then tried to boot on the old Gateway (G6-266).  The CD-ROM (1st in the 
boot queue) tried valiantly at least three times to read the CD (I could 
hear the sweeps and the read light was on) but alas, it didn't happen.

One thing I could try is using different burner software that physically 
makes the CD "bootable", but two things concern me:

1) The 1st fedora ISO image should boot by itself, as it does on my newer 
machine, and
2) The "bootable disk" option does not seem to correspond to true ISO 
format, rather more Joliet or Windows type, and so may not help...

H.



>From: "H Q" <ecomeasurement at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: kam.leo at gmail.com, fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Core 4 installation on an old Gateway
>Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:31:20 -0700
>
>
>Thanks for your letter.  I'm currently using some silver TDK CD-R media 
>which was just purchased.  I assumed it would be satisfactory.  They were 
>burned at 8X.  I use a newer Dell to download and image the ISO's onto the 
>CD's.
>
>I will try 4X, and then try to boot from the Gateway CD-ROM again.
>
>Any other suggestions would be appreciated --incidentally, my old Gateway 
>for some reason is not giving me the dual boot screen for FreeBSD/Windows 
>98, either.  (This happened prior to any Fedora Linux installation).  I was 
>hoping to just use the existing 5 GB of FreeBSD "unused space" on the 
>non-primary partition, and install Linux over it.
>
>H.
>
>>From: Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>
>>Reply-To: Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>,For users of Fedora Core releases 
>><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Subject: Re: Core 4 installation on an old Gateway
>>Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:03:16 -0700
>>
>>On 7/17/05, H Q <ecomeasurement at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I burned the ISO images to CD, and they worked on my newer machine, but 
>>the
>> > old Gateway would not read them off its CD-ROM drive.  I tried making 
>>the
>> > boot diskette (changing the boot sequence accordingly), but that 
>>wouldn't
>> > work on either machine ("boot failed")
>> >
>> > I tried changing the default boot sequence on the Gateway to an 
>>external RW
>> > CD drive, but none of the options in the BIOS seemed to refer to the
>> > external drive.  I tried FLOPTICAL, SCSI device, with no luck.
>> >
>> > The CD-ROM on the Gateway *did* read the ISO boot from a previous 
>>FreeBSD
>> > distribution, and still does, so it may not be the drive itself.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > H.
>> >
>>
>>Have you tried using different media (gold vs silver colored disc or
>>different brand/manufacturer) and burning the image at a lower speed
>>(4X)?
>>
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