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Old 12-09-2000, 02:28 PM   #1
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I have partitioned my C: drive. I changed my BIOS settings so it reads the CD-ROM for a boot disk. After selecting to install in graphical mode, a series of scrolling texts appears (appearing to recognize hardware). Then my screen goes blue and the cd stops reading. Is there something I am doing wrong? How can I get RH 6.1 running?
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Old 12-09-2000, 03:19 PM   #2
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I haven't tried to boot the bootable CDROM. This might be something I'll experiment with at some time to answer the questions on using the boot disk. But I can imagine that this is something you might do to run the environment and look at it. Maybe there are a number of practical things you can do with booting to the CDROM, but to me it seems that it would be untollerable confinding since you won't be able to build all your particular hardware support into a disk that only readible.

From my experience, and since you said you already partitioned your hard drive, I'd create bootable floppies, wihch might be a duplication of the propose of booting to the CDROM disk. With Slackware the next step would be to login after booting to the floppyes (which again, you might be at this step). Then run "setup" at the prompt. I installed everything by default, because I knew I had the harddrive space and wanted the works.

If this is what you've done for Red Hat, then there might be a varible that someone running Red Hat would clarify.

I'll watch this thread so that I'll learn the difference with the installation of Red Hat while you learn (what the problem happens to be).

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Old 12-09-2000, 03:22 PM   #3
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I have installed Red Hat 6.1 via the grapical setup before and it was pretty straight forward. What video card do you have? It is possible that it is not supported and the install is there you just can't see it. Have you tried the text mode install? It's not too bad - I actually prefer it.
 
Old 12-09-2000, 06:58 PM   #4
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Which method did you use to install the system on Linux Questions? I never thought about making the CDROM the boot device. Is this a common install? Come command would be on the root diskette if you created a install set? For Slackware the command is setup.

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Old 12-09-2000, 07:05 PM   #5
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I used the text mode setup for LQ, but I booted from the CD. It is much more convenient in my opinion and these days it is the standard not the exception (This is also how win2000 installs).

The Red Hat boot floppies go right into the install (I learned this the hard way!)
 
Old 12-09-2000, 07:53 PM   #6
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I would think it should be more conventional to boot from floppy and not have to bother with the CMOS. The floppy installation that I've always used have been very straight forward. It has all the neccesary scripts to prompt you for which drive you're going to use for your install device, which could also be a network including the Internet.

I believe having people to boot to the operation systeming rather than install it is the wrong way to go. The system should be installed on the device you actually want to boot to.

By the way, your message said you prefer the floppy install, so it seems that your feelings shouldn't be to far from what I'm describing should be the standard.

I just tested out a version of Linux that installs from Windows. It was a very fast facility, but it really took away a certain potential. It took away my ability to mount the rest of Windows partitian because the system shares the Windows partition which is already mounted as Linux. There are other elements that are lost, but I'll try to keep the message from getting too big to become too confusing.

Actually I'll write a letter soon to the distrubitor of this distro that installs from Windows to see how to gain access to your files that are in Windows in case I'm wrong and you don't loose the rest of your hard drive.

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Old 12-09-2000, 08:15 PM   #7
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After starting the install in text mode, i get to a point where it asks for the mount point? what I am supposed to fill in for that?
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Old 12-09-2000, 08:20 PM   #8
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Actually I prefer (by a large amount) booting from a CD. Not sure what you mean by bothering with the CMOS - you just put the CD in the drive and turn on the computer. You get many more options by booting from the CD. You can only fit so many drivers on a floppy, hence the 20 different boot disks available. The CD auto-detects your hardware and loads the appropriate drivers. You can pass boot parameters also in case the auto-detect doesn't work right.
 
Old 12-09-2000, 08:50 PM   #9
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I am assuming you are talking about the point where it is asking you to partition your drives. Minimally you need a / and a swap partition. There was just a thread about correct partitioning a day or two ago. I would highly recommend you do a search for it. If you have any other questions about partitioning after reading that thread let us know.
 
Old 12-18-2000, 08:29 AM   #10
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Hi, Jeremy. I finally did an install by booting to the CDROM. It went smoothly and was convenient. In your question about what changes to the CMOS one had to make, it was to change the boot device, which I was referring to. Booting to the floppy and installing would not have required a CMOS change. You just boot to the floppy select your options confirm to install, and then reboot to the system.

However, on second look, the simply boot device change was as convenient as having to change boot floppy disk, since the boot disk and file system were on different floppies.

I see the bootable CDROM as a very convenient tool. The problem is, my Main computer has a SCSI cdrom, and it’s not recognized until the drivers are loaded.

I’ll be opting in the future to boot to the CDROM for install unless for some reason as in the case of my SCSI one that didn’t work, this option isn’t available

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Old 12-18-2000, 08:38 AM   #11
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You can boot from a SCSI CDROM as long as the SCSI card you have supports it (I think most do). It is usually a configuration option in the SCSI BIOS.
 
Old 12-18-2000, 11:53 AM   #12
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Thanks. I should have included that I'm aware that you can configure your system to boot from the SCSI device. However, this particular drive is just funny without having drivers.

I've always booted to SCSI on the SCO machine.

Thanks for pointing it out in case I was missing it. I wrote the manufacturer of the HP SCSI CDW about this and never got a response. I could never install Win9X or NT using that CDROM drive. It would never be recognized (even though the bios sees it at boot time) until the operation system is installed.

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