[rhn-users] Install RHEL4 ES

[Brian R Smith]

Roel,

>From what you have stated, one _can_ assume that you have a relatively
modern system and that there should be no problem, hardware wise, from
booting off a CD.  Do you have any other bootable CD's, like your old
RedHat 9 installation media?  Can you give that a try and see if your
DVD drive boots correctly?

If you have the disks and it does work, i'd wager that your CD writer is
goofing up somewhere, or your ISO's might be corrupt (though that's a
hard sell, as you have stated that you have checksummed the iso's).

Let us know what happens.

-Brian

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:37 +0200, Roel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I have an X86 system, with a 160G HD and a CD-DVD writer, no floppy
> drive however.
> 
> The system runs Redhat 9 at the moment.
> 
>  
> 
> I now want to install the Enterprise version of Redhat, ES, release 4.
> 
> To that end I have downloaded the ISO images and put them in separate
> 
> directories on the HD, /mnt/cd1, /mnt/cd2, /mnt/cd3, /mnt/cd4.
> 
> I have checksummed the ISO images.
> 
>  
> 
> I have decided that I will install Linux 4 over the present version,
> and have backup up the system.
> 
>  
> 
> I still have to create an installation CDROM, so I turn to section
> 2.4.2 of the manual and followed the instructions there and issued the
> necessary commands to create the CD. Next I burned the resulting
>  “file.iso” to a CD-ROM.
> 
>  
> 
> I then changed the BIOS settings in order to boot from CDROM.
> 
>  
> 
> Finally I reboot the system with the CD in place and wait for the boot
> prompt to appear.
> 
>  
> 
> But I wait in vain, because the boot prompt does not appear, and the
> system is instead booting the old version Red Hat 9.
> 
> Maybe the CDROM was corrupt. So I burned another one. However the same
> result.
> 
>  
> 
> Please some advice.
> 
>  
> 
> How do I now proceed ?
> 
>  
> 
> Grtz,
> 
>  
> 
> Roel
> 
> 
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