install RH8.0, oldass bios, no cd-rom to boot from?

[BELLY]

got a old computer from my dad(pentium200mmx)

had NT installed on it,

I deleted all partitions.

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when i reboot i get

mouse...detected
keyboard....detected


hardrive...maxtorblablabla

no operating system present

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it dosent seem to load the drivers for the cdrom, cause when i set the boot priority to boot from cdrom i get "please put media in apropriate drive"


i dont know what to do. I was thinking i could boot with a win98 boot disk and select the "with cd-rom support and when i get to an A:prompt i could switch to the cdrom with redhat in it and make it load somehow???? does this sound reasonable?

any other ideas?


thx for all your help

also i just used these cd's to do a flawless install on my computer.

[mdwatts]

If your bios has the option to boot from cd and it will not boot from the Redhat 8.0 installation cd, then I would suspect you did not burn the iso image correctly.

Can you see a filesystem (files/directories) on the installation cd?

[BELLY]

well i know the cd is good cause i just installed it on my "good" computer

also, i set the boot priority to cd then floppy(as well as JUST the cdrom and everything else disabled) and put the cd and a win 98 boot diskett in and the cd dosent even spin, it just skips to the diskett?

another question, mdwatts you ever get tired of helping clueless n00bs?

[Tune a PC]

You could use the cdrom to make a boot disk. Of course you will need another computer for that, or at least the win98 boot disk you spoke of.

Look for a file named somthing like boot.img image it to a blank floppy. If your in a dos or windows invironment you can use rawrite to make the floppy.

Its been along time since I used redhat, so I hope my information is accurate enough to help.

Good Luck

[BELLY]

well i guess my question is, when i boot from win98 boot disk and select "with cdrom support"

move from a: to d: <---cd rom prompt, is there anything i can do to make it spin?

[Tune a PC]

I think the Drive letter will be E:\ if you have only one Dos Partition on the hard drive, because Win98 boot disk loads some tools in memory and calls it D:\.

I would get the drive letter reported by the bootdisk and get a directory on it.

E:\Dir /p

Some distros will let you install from dos, but Im not sure about Redhat.

Let me know what you find.

[BELLY]

Originally posted by Tune a PC
You could use the cdrom to make a boot disk. Of course you will need another computer for that, or at least the win98 boot disk you spoke of.

Look for a file named somthing like boot.img image it to a blank floppy. If your in a dos or windows invironment you can use rawrite to make the floppy.

Its been along time since I used redhat, so I hope my information is accurate enough to help.

Good Luck




thank you so much internet friend:):) this place has helped me soooo much:D


and thank you mdwatts for all the other theads i have started:D:)

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by BELLY

another question, mdwatts you ever get tired of helping clueless n00bs?

YES!!!!

I do try to help even though I still consider myself a newbie.

LNO is getting way to busy these days and it's really hard to keep up with all the questions being posted.