Replacing bad CDRom drive

[Jon Moss]

I was actually able to boot off the RedHat 9 CD and get part way through the
text based installation.  Then it would stop.  I used this same set of CDs a
couple of weeks ago on a different computer at work with no problems.  Since
it was doing the same thing with the factory RedHat 8 CDs (the same ones I
installed on this home computer several months ago and which I have used on
other computers), I guessed it was the drive dying (because the errors were
inconsistent).

Thanks again for your help!

Jon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at dattaway.org>
To: "Jon Moss" <jon.moss at cnonline.net>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Replacing bad CDRom drive

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Jon Moss wrote:
>
> > I believe the CDROM drive is an IDE drive.  I will create a boot floppy
> > with the drivers just in case.
>
> Yes, you may have to use a floppy.  Depends on if your computer can
> support the larger boot images most distributions use these days.
>
> The BIOS in some computers, such as my Toshiba laptop, weren't programmed
> to recognize the larger "floppy boot images" that are used in the bootable
> cdroms.  It seems redhat used a 2.4MB boot floppy image to make their
> cdroms bootable, breaking the ability for me to boot off their
> distribution.  So, I had to use a floppy.
>
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