FC3 Install Problems

[James Wilkinson]

Dan was having trouble installing.

> I can boot MS DOS and Windows 98 from CDROM on the same machine without
> issue. FC1 was previously installed and Redhat 9 before that.

I asked:
> Is that "I've booted them now to check everything is working" or "I've
> booted them in the past"?

and he replied:
> Yep, booted them to check.
> 
> Eventually I went to rom-o-matic.net and downloaded a etherboot iso
> image for my NIC. Burnt this to CDR and it booted fine, and was able to
> load pxelinux.0 via tftp, and start the install that way.

Glad to hear it's working. 

> I tend to think the ISO images are (somewhat?) faulty, even tho md5sums
> all match. Works on machine A, not on machine B.
> 
> I have a friend who tried to install FC3 last night and he had much the
> same problems as I - System not booting bootable FC3 ISOs.

The other option is that the system doesn't like booting from home-burnt
media. I have a CD-RW at home that will read and write CD-RWs fine, but
it takes maybe ten seconds to spin up and recognise that there's
somthing in the drive. By that time, my BIOS has decided that the CD
obviously isn't bootable. It boots fine from pre-recorded CDs.

(The "solution", FWIW, is to time closing the CD drawer so that the CD
is still spun up when the BIOS wants to read it).

James.

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