RED HAT 7 ISO'S

[Mike hunt]

I downloaded redhat7 this weekend, The 2 iso images and also the i386 folder (thanks to buffalo's ftp 230ks!) anyway, I booted from the floppy but red hat said it couldnt find any cd with RH on it! .. why? Do i need to unrar or unzip those iso images into something else? if so, how?! - effed up thing is that when I tried to install from the i386 files it crashed ..bad - something about annaconda or something.

If anyone has ever downloaded REDHAT before please advise .. Do i need ALL the files? I mean all the preview rpms and **** .. cause thats over a gig. and I thought I had all the needed files to install via i386 on the one cd but maybe not ... wtf

[mstich]

All you need to do is burn those iso files.

[Mike hunt]

I did that .. got both of em on 2 different cd's ... I cant boot off them and when booting from the floppy (boot.img) it tells me it cant find any cd in my rom with redhat on it ...

[bdg1983]

You cannot boot off the CD? Is your PC CD bootable or does it fail just on the Redhat CD?

[Mike hunt]

I boot off cd's ok - Like original OS cd's - I have an older rom that cant boot off cd-r's BUT, thats not really my issue cause when I boot from the boot.img floppy things go ok till it looks for the cd rom - if i put in the cd with the 1st iso image in it says it cant find any redhat cd's BUT if i put in the cd-r with the RHi386 folder it installs for a bit but then crashes, I think that has to do with some files that may be missing because i wasnt sure what to burn on the 1st i386 cd-r being that the whole folder is over a gig. So if i try to go the iso way .. should that work? just booting from the floppy and poppin in the 1 cd-r with the 1st iso image? maybe my image is screwed??? grr

[bdg1983]

That's why I asked if your PC can boot from a CD. Sounds like the CD was not created properly.

Booting from the install diskette and still having problems finding the RH CD verifies this.

Try burning the CD again and make sure you select 'create CD from image' in your CD software and then select the iso file.

Another place you can get iso's is www.linuxiso.org (http://www.linuxiso.org) although I've never downloaded from there myself.

[mongrel]

Which RH7 are you trying to install. If it's the new beta then I'm willing to guess that you have an internal zip drive. If you do then you need to download an update disk from RedHat or one of the mirrors. It is in the images folder, I believe the file is called fisher-upddsk1.img, write this image to a floppy and boot off the CD-Rom or boot floppy like you normally do, when you get to the boot: prompt enter: linux updates it will then prompt you to insert your update disk, fisher-upddsk1.img that should've been written to a floppy, and then the install should proceed as normal.

I had the same problem and found the above on RedHat's site.

[Mike hunt]

not beta - just plain ole RH7

[Big_daddy]

mdwatts has the word up. Look at the CD and make sure it has various directories on it and not just one iso file.

[willk]

Look at the documentation for the CDR software...
Make sure you are using somthing to the effect of "create CD from image"
Just doing a straight copy of the .img will not work. An .img is just that...an image.
Your software should create the actual dik from that image.