Wow, something doesn't sound right. Can you verify that the iso you burned for disc1 is foresight-0.9.3-i386-disc1.iso? Did the md5sum match? You shouldn't even see that prompt unless you booted the boot.iso, diskboot.img, or booted disc1 and typed "linux askmethod" at the boot: prompt.
And by the way, welcome to Foresight! --Ken On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 05:46 -0700, Ron Stewart wrote: > I'm completely new to Foresight, but have some experience with Linux > and installing it on several of my computers (having played at various > times with Mandrake, SuSE, FC3/4, and most recently Ubuntu). I am > interested in playing with Foresight for a bit on my laptop (a Dell > Latitude D600) that has been running some variation of each of the > above at different times over the past year -- bottom line there is > that I know this to be a reasonably Linux-compatible little box. > > I posted this same topic on the Foresight forum [1] yesterday > afternoon, but as of this morning, I have seen any replies there on > the forum. Hopefully someone here on the list can provide some > insight. > > I downloaded the 0.9.3 iso's earlier yesterday (15 Dec) and burned > them to CD (sounds like I am lucky to have missed the 0.9.2 boot > problems). Slapped the first CD in the drive, rebooted, started > through the boot process. First couple of steps (boot, language, > keyboard) seemed to go OK, but when it got to the "Installation > Method" page, asking "What type of media contains the packages to be > installed?", I chose "Local CDROM" (with the other available choices > there being Hard drive, NFS image, FTP, HTTP), and selected OK. It > spun the CD drive, and pops up a page titled "CD Not Found", with the > following message: The rPath Linux CD was not found in any of your > CDROM drives. Please insert the rPath Linux CD and press OK to retry." > > I retried on that CD several times, but no joy. > > What am I missing here? > > Thanks in advance! I'm looking forward to giving this distro a shot -- > hopefully some kind soul can point out the error in what I am doing > here... > > -- > Ron Stewart > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1. http://forum.foresightlinux.com/index.php?showtopic=269 > _______________________________________________ > Desktop-distro mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.bizrace.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-distro > _______________________________________________ Desktop-distro mailing list [email protected] http://lists.bizrace.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-distro
