I remember when using roxio to create a boot disk there was some little box you had to click somewhere to make sure that the disk would be a bootable disk. Sorry, it's been years since I did that so I'm not sure where it is. But a disk image along is not bootable. It's something extra that has to be added at the time of the burn. hth, Allen
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Taylor Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:09 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Downloading and Installing RHEL Desktop 5.1 From Scratch Well, here it is Saturday morning and my long-anticipated weekend project of installing Universe on Linux has just come to a screeching halt. I downloaded RHEL 5.1 Desktop and burned the disk1 cd image to a CD-ROM using Windows XPPro. When I install the the CD-ROM on the new machine with only the CD-ROM drive designated as a bootable device, I get a message: "Boot Error. System Halted." I tried to install it on my laptop and it failed to install there also. The CD-ROM drive read lite came on in both cases, so I believe that it's reading the CD-ROM but not finding what it expects to find. Using Explorer to view the download or the burned image, I see only one icon representing an unknown file type. I don't see any individual folders or files within the image. To fail this early in the process suggests that I'm doing something very wrong. Any suggestions? tia, Dave Dave Taylor Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. Authorized IBM Business Partner 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 (O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (F) 310-377-3550 (C) 310-561-5200 www.sysmarkinfo.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
