Troubles installing RH 7.3

[disaster]

Right now I have Xp on my machine. I am trying to completely replace is with RH. I have 1 of each of the following made:
1) 3 iso RH burned cd's
2) a boot.img
3) a drvblock.img

SO far I have done this:
1) changed my BIOS so that my floppy boots first
2) When windows starts to boot up I put the boot.img floppy in; this brings me to a "Welcom to RED HAT linux 7.3" scean. Under this sceen I have a few options
a)install/upgrade linux in graphical mode
b)install/upgrade linux in text mode
c)enable low resolution
disable framebuffer
e)disable hardware probing
f)test the install media
g)enable rescue mode
h)if you have a drive disk

Then at the bottom of the screen there is this:
[F1-main] [F2-general] [F3-kernel] [F4-rescue]

3) I pick install in graphical mode. It then says "loading initrd.img" everytime this fails and says "please change disks and press a key to continue"
4) I tried the drvblock.img but all it said was "OS not found"

I am probably wrong but what i think might be the problem is:
I boot up with the floppy, but the iso's are on cd-r's, maybe i need to find a way to point it to the cd-r's. I have no idea. A friend helped me get this far, So if anyone can help, i need very easy step by step instructions on what i need to do.

[nomo_green]

does your bios support booting from cd? probably if you got xp running on that pc. just stick disk one in cd and set bios to boot from cd, and restart.

otherwise, try reading this:

http://www.redhat.com/download/howto_download.html

good luck:D

[disaster]

I tried that but xp think it should open this disk with word.

[Mi}{alis]

if your bios supports it, u can boot directly to a cd and skip winxp altogether

[kestrel001]

Sounds like it's starting to boot from diskette and failing. My first step would be to rebuild that image on a different diskette to rule out a media problem, and if that fails, re-download the image and repeat to rule out a bad .img file.

Before you do either though, follow the advice above and boot the first CD with no diskette in the drive. It just might work, you don't *need* the diskettes if so :-)

Mike

[thekillerbean]

did you burn the iso file as one big file? in other words, if you view the cd in windows xp file manager, do you see a complete directory structure or just one file?

forgive the question if you've burnt iso's before and know exactly what you are doing - i just had to ask 'cause i've seen quite a few people burning an iso as if it was a single large file!

if you still have the original iso's on your harddrive, you may want to run md5summer (look for it on google or your fav search engine) to verify the iso's. if you do see a complete directory structure on your cd and md5summer says the iso's are good, then i'd be just as stumped as you - :mad:

that's my $.02 for now.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by disaster
I tried that but xp think it should open this disk with word.

You need to reboot the pc, change the bios boot order to cd first, insert the Linux cd and then allow the pc to boot.