[rhn-users] Install RHEL4 ES

[Doctor Khumalo]

I've had this problem in the past and it's been one of two problems:

(1) download the wrong ISOs
-  I made the mistake of downloading the src file instead of the iso file. 
The file name for the CD should be RHEL4-i386-ES-disc1.iso. It's tricky 
because the src file is also an ISO.

(2) didn't create a bootable ISO CD.
-  You have to make sure that you've selected the bootable option in your CD 
writing software.





>From: "Roel" <roel at rksalomons.nl>
>Reply-To: Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users at redhat.com>
>To: <rhn-users at redhat.com>
>Subject: [rhn-users] Install RHEL4 ES
>Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:37:28 +0200
>
>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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