FC6Pre install attemp: Can no longer get to the install CD or Rescue CD

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Sun Oct 1 19:28:58 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 15:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > loader on the system's harddrive.  It appears your machine has lost its 
> > ability to boot from the CD drive, which paired with your install dying at 
> > 70% would indicate perhaps your CD drive has gone kaput.
> 
> Some boxes will do stupid things with CD boot. One way to be sure of what
> is happening is to go into the BIOS and set it to boot from CD-ROM,
> and nothing else.
> 
> At least one box I have here requires that some days


The CDROM drive on the laptop is indeed a bit flaky these days.

I re-seated the drive several times. 
Finally, I was able to use the "FC-development-i386-rescuecd.iso"

As suggested by John Reiser, I will try an install directly from
RawHide.

Next, I am attempting an FTP install from:
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Fedora/core/development/i386/os


I hope this will go okay.  At this point at least Anaconda is running.
I am crossing-my-fingers. :)



Thanks,
Ernest


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