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slayer17
10-23-2001, 10:46 AM
Dammit! I spent half the night downloading and burning redhat 7.2 and I get to work this moring to try them out and the damn thing won't boot. I can view them when I mount the cdrom, and my bios is set to boot cdrom. Any suggestions, I never had this problem before! I need more coffee!
Dagda
10-23-2001, 10:53 AM
did you check the md5sums before you burned it? also did you burn it as a disk image or just put the ISO file on the cd?
S.D.Willie
10-23-2001, 11:04 AM
im gonna agree with the last post and ask if you chose to "burn image" when you made the cd, or just burned it as an .iso file

also, its possible you didnt get the whole download. check the proper size of yours and what the actual image file is supposed to be.

SD
X_console
10-23-2001, 11:44 AM
If you still can't get it to work, create boot disks and boot with those.
The Whizzard
10-23-2001, 01:22 PM
I had a couple of (old)Gateway P-166's that were able to boot off of some CD's but not any linux CD's. I know the CD's are good because I used them to setup a few other boxen. Is the box you are trying to setup abit outdated?
kormoc
10-23-2001, 08:26 PM
Or does the cdrom drive work with the color cd's you have or any burned cds?
Hena
10-24-2001, 01:39 AM
did you check the md5sums before you burned it?


I failed with RH7.2 too. I was wandering though, what that md5sums mean? And i did burn it as image not as file.
bdg1983
10-24-2001, 04:39 AM
This should explain it.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/md5.html