FWIW I had zero problems installing from cdrom on a new Sony Viao. My Prblem came from the athlon kernel and the AMD chipset settings. I had to install i686 kernel.
Bret On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 06:40, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: > I had bad luck installing redhat 7.2 from cdrom. After > booting with a floppy disk it didnt find the cdrom > drive.What I had to do was copying the cddisk to the > win partition on the harddisk and install it from > there.Put both iso enigma cd's in the same folder. > > > --- Michael Waluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > Hi, > > I am a new Linux user and am trying to install from > > CD-ROM to a new computer (new hard-drive with > > nothing on it). I have 1GHz P III, 512MB fast RAM, > > 20GB fast IDE hard drive and 52x IDE CD-ROM. > > > > The CD-ROM boots into the installer but I don't get > > past the question regarding where to install from. > > I select "CD-ROM", hit enter, see a blue screen, > > anaconda starts and then I get a system 11, the CD > > ejects and a messages says I may safely reboot. I > > have tried every mode and plenty of options, as well > > as other 7.2 CDs (including the set in the 7.2 Bible > > book). I have also tried using the oldcdrom.img on > > a diskette (used rawrite to copy from CD) for a > > device driver, but that didn't help. > > > > The log usually contains the following lines so I am > > hoping someone will recognize what is wrong. Any > > ideas? > > > > <4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format > > <4>VFS: can't find ext2 filesystem and dev loop > > (7,0). > > > > and sometimes followed by: > > > > <4>Error-3 while decompressing! > > > > Thanks for any help you can give me. > > > > -Michael > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Norge - no.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
