Re: CD was not found

thanks Rick warner for anwser and your opinion of the situation. well, i 
have msdos boot disd, and i try to installed from the cd, since msdos 
recognice my cd, and it goes trought the whole languange and keyboard 
selection. but i can not pass that screen asking my that the cd was not 
found. do you think if i installed from a network would work. thank you rick






>From: Rick Warner <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: fred smith <[email protected]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: CD was not found
>Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:14:29 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>I think his original statement meant he had the boot image on a floppy,
>just that when he booted off that he could not see the CD-ROM drive.
>My take on that is he either has a dead CD-ROM drive OR he has a CD-ROM
>drive running off a controller which is not supported on the standard
>boot floppy.  Latter case is rare these days, but not unknown.  If his
>problem is the former (dead CD-ROM) then replacement is needed.  If it
>is some obscure CD-ROM/controller combo then it becomes 'make your own
>boot image floppy' voodoo time; not for the beginner.  Of course, since
>the original poster gave ZERO details - just 'it does not work' - there
>is no way for us to tell what the story might be here.  Of course the fact
>that the BIOS does not support boot from CD tells me this is probably some
>rather old box and thus the odd controller problem is likely,
>
>- rick warner
>
>On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, fred smith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0000, juan alcaraz wrote:
> > > I still having problems installing RH 8.0, i try intalling it by using 
>a
> > > driver disk and a boot disk, and still don't work. The bios on my 
>system
> > > don't support booting from the cd, it does not recognised. can some 
>one help
> > > please. I got the RH 8.0 from some else, do i need something else 
>besides
> > > the 5 CD's?
> >
> > If your system won't boot from CD, then create an installation-boot
> > floppy and boot from it.
> >
> > On your CD (#1) you'll find a file named boot.img. there's also a DOS/
> > Windoze program named rawrite.exe (or rawrite2.exe). Using the latter,
> > write the former to a diskette. Use that diskette to stat your
> > installation.
> >
> >
>
>
>
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