Burning RedHat- Any Special Considerations?

Ruler2112 · December 22nd, 2002, 03:14 AM

I recently bought a copy of RedHat 7.2 on CD-R. There are a couple of problems that I was wondering if anybody here has any insight on.

The first problem wasn't a biggie- CD1 wasn't bootable. I figured I'd just go old-school; I copied boot.img to a floppy, booted from there, and started the install. I then selected the language, but when I selected the CD drive as the source to install from, I was presented with a nice error message saying that the install program can't find the RedHat CD. I tried both CD1 and CD2.

I thought that maybe the install program was expecting the boot info to be on the CD and since it wasn't found, it didn't recognize the CD as being a RedHat. I burnt a copy of CD1 with Nero, only setting it to be bootable with the boot image set to boot.img. When I rebooted with this disk in the drive, the install program took right off, but I encountered the same problem again.

I can read all of the files off of the CD fine, thereby indicating to me that it's not a media problem or faulty burn. Rather, I'm thinking there's some special file structure or something on the CD that the install program is looking for and not finding- possibly something that windoze doesn't recognize? The boot info on the CD didn't copy, so I'm wondering what else was missed.

The person I bought the CDs from said that he "used NTI CD maker 2000 std. edition and I first created an ISO image from the Original CD then I burned the image". I've never used this software before, so I don't have a clue as to it's capabilities or how it creates it's ISOs.

Anybody have any advice?

jkrohn · December 22nd, 2002, 03:17 AM

Just seems like a bad burn. The person could have messed it up though.

Is it possible for you to download the ISO's and burn your own?

Jkrohn

storm2k · December 22nd, 2002, 03:23 AM

i would just download the iso images from the net... burn then yourself with nero... and get your money back from that guy...

ps - suggest you try redhat 8.0... it's a bit more user friendly if you're a linux or redhat newbie.

Ruler2112 · December 22nd, 2002, 03:30 AM

Heh, at 56K, RedHat 43.7 would be out by the time I got it done!

storm2k · December 22nd, 2002, 03:33 AM

if you would like, i can mail you a copy of redhat 8.0 for the cost of media + shipping (5 bucks at most). i media checked all three of my images and they're not corrupted.

let me know if you'd like to do this

chris64 · December 22nd, 2002, 02:52 PM

Ruler2112 I could reburn redhat 7.2 for you with Nero(I used NTI CD maker for the first CD I sent him) if you like I could've just done a bad burn.

chris64 · December 22nd, 2002, 03:57 PM

Ruler2112 I could burn you a copy of Mandrake 9 intead if you like(it's a 3 CD set so just pay for extra shipping) or I could send you another copy of redhat 7.2 for free.

chris64 · December 22nd, 2002, 06:13 PM

Just created new image with NERO and burned a CD and it booted fine so LMK if you want me to send it. No Charge.