Lenny Net Installer issue
Hi everyone, I am trying to install Lenny on my workstation. I have burnt a net install image to disc (LennyBeta2). My pc will not boot on this disc. I get the message that I have a non system disc. If I use a second cdrom drive that is in my workstation I get the same error message. If I boot it on my wifes pc it is OK. So I put an old FreeBSD installation disc in my drive and reboot, it will boot . Why won't the lenny disc boot on my workstation??? Martin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lenny Net Installer issue
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 19:27:00 +1000, Martin Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to install Lenny on my workstation. I have burnt a net install image to disc (LennyBeta2). My pc will not boot on this disc. I get the message that I have a non system disc. If I use a second cdrom drive that is in my workstation I get the same error message. If I boot it on my wifes pc it is OK. So I put an old FreeBSD installation disc in my drive and reboot, it will boot . Why won't the lenny disc boot on my workstation??? Martin. Hi Martin You say your new Lenny CD boots on your wife's PC, so it would appear you have correctly burnt the ISO image. You also say that an old FreeBSD CD boots on your workstation, which in turn suggests that your workstation hardware and BIOS settings are ok. So this could be an intermittent fault (unlikely) or more probably some sort of incompatibility issue between your workstation's hardware and the CD. Did you use a re-writable (RW) CD rather than a normal 'one use' CD? Maybe your hardware is fussy in this respect. Or is it a +R versus -R problem? All highly unlikely, but you do seem to have already eliminated the more obvious things. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lenny Net Installer issue
Hi Bob, thankyou for the reply. I have tried a cd-r and dvd-r with the same result. I can boot into my current etch installation that is on my workstation and load the disc, and then I am able to browse it, so I am assuming that it burnt OK. This is bizarre. Cheers, Martin. Bob Cox wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 19:27:00 +1000, Martin Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to install Lenny on my workstation. I have burnt a net install image to disc (LennyBeta2). My pc will not boot on this disc. I get the message that I have a non system disc. If I use a second cdrom drive that is in my workstation I get the same error message. If I boot it on my wifes pc it is OK. So I put an old FreeBSD installation disc in my drive and reboot, it will boot . Why won't the lenny disc boot on my workstation??? Martin. Hi Martin You say your new Lenny CD boots on your wife's PC, so it would appear you have correctly burnt the ISO image. You also say that an old FreeBSD CD boots on your workstation, which in turn suggests that your workstation hardware and BIOS settings are ok. So this could be an intermittent fault (unlikely) or more probably some sort of incompatibility issue between your workstation's hardware and the CD. Did you use a re-writable (RW) CD rather than a normal 'one use' CD? Maybe your hardware is fussy in this respect. Or is it a +R versus -R problem? All highly unlikely, but you do seem to have already eliminated the more obvious things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
