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TwilightRyuu
10-30-2002, 01:29 AM
I have all 3 CD's, good checksum. When I try to install it, I choose "Local CD" as my isntall media, and it says it can't detect a CD. I've tried it in my DVD and CD-RW drive, and i've even tried it on my other computer with just a CD drive. No work. Help plz.
Kenno
10-30-2002, 01:33 AM
Did you write the .ISO you download to the normal CD yet? (just a thought)
TwilightRyuu
10-30-2002, 01:36 AM
All 3 iso's have been burned to all 3 blank cd's wih easy cd creator 5.

No work. And when I try to use rawwritewin to copy the boot.img to floppy, it doesn't work. :(
Saptech
10-30-2002, 02:28 AM
When you get that error message, have you tried opening the drive door and closing it? Or, if you have a large enough hard drive, maybe you can copy the cd to the HD!
TwilightRyuu
10-30-2002, 02:32 AM
When it freezes, I can't open the drive. I might just keep 7.3 which is already installed, except that it freezes. Even when i'm just idling it freezes. =( I think Linux hates meh.
Saptech
10-30-2002, 02:43 AM
I don't think Linux hates you. ;) Maybe you can try a different distro, such as Slackware, Mandrake, or Lycoris. Don't give up to soon.

I tried installing RH 8.0 recently and kept getting Kernel Panic errors for the first boot up...I still don't know why it won't work but I just got Debian 3.0 and it installed without any problems. So does Slackware! :)
TwilightRyuu
10-30-2002, 11:11 AM
The problem with trying another distro is that I don't really know how to install anything without the help of GnoRPM. I was looking at Mandrake, and I thought I might give 9.0 a try.
jtruong
10-30-2002, 01:27 PM
I just installed redhat 8.0, the only problem so far is trying to install my wireless network card. Other than that, no crashes of any kind except that i can't open system settings->packages anymore. I would load up then close...

I don't know if you're a newbie, you don't sound like one but i just wanted to mention to mount the disks. I didn't know about that and it took me awhile to figure out how to open/close my cdrom drives.

jtruong
TwilightRyuu
10-30-2002, 08:16 PM
I'm pretty much a Linux newb. I've used Red Hat 7.0 and 7.3. I tried installing Gentoo, but fdisk made me go :rolleyes:

I might just go buy the boxed set and see if that works. Thx all.
Saptech
10-31-2002, 04:08 AM
Originally posted by TwilightRyuu
The problem with trying another distro is that I don't really know how to install anything without the help of GnoRPM. I was looking at Mandrake, and I thought I might give 9.0 a try.
tar -zxvf some-file.1.2.3.tar.gz

cd some-file.1.2.3

./configure
make
make install (as root)

will install any tar.gz file using any distro! :D