Installation woes.

[anthony76]

Hello!

I have been having trouble with my burned disks for booting with linux.
I have tried both Fedora 8 and debian (iso cd 1) and cannot get the boot records recognised by my system. Both were i386.

I have also tried extracting the debian files using poweriso and copying them to a normal cd but to no avail. The only thing I can think of is that maybe I download the wrong one(s).

Here is a list of my hardware so someone might be able to shed some light on what is going wrong.

board: K7S5A
chip: 1800+ Athlon
hdd: 60gig ide wd
ram: 1gig
cd drives:1 read only and 1 asus lightscribe ide

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Do not extract .iso image. Select Burn Image to Disk option in your CD Burner package. Burn CD/DVD at lowest possible speed supported by your CD/DVD Burner.

[anthony76]

Ok. Tried it. Didn't work.

The file I am saving to the disk(s) is 'debian-40r3-i386-CD-1'.

This is frustrating. I WANT to use linux DAMMIT!!!

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

It sounds like you might not be burning the ISO file to the disk as an image. Check this HowTo for steps in getting it burned properly:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

[anthony76]

I used fsum on the iso and the numbers check out with the 'sums' provided on the debian website. So it isn't the file.

I am using Nero 7. I have worked out how to burn an image to disk but it only allows to hard drive. I have been trying then to burn the new 'image' file to cd (with slowest setting) but when I try to restart my computer with the newly imprinted cd it doesn't work.

[devils casper]

What error does machine throw when boot up from Installation CD? Have you set CD Drive as First Boot Device in BIOS?

[anthony76]

Yes. It is set as first boot device. I tried it with a boot cd i bought containing an image of 'another' os that I am using now and it prompted "Press any key to boot from CD..." so I know it is set as first boot device. It must be something to do with Nero. But all the help I can google about burning images with nero is about DVD's not operating systems.

[devils casper]

I have burned a lot of CD/DVD .iso images using Nero. You dont have to anything special for that. Just click on Burn Image to Disc option and select .iso image.

[oz]

Hi, anthony76

You can check the bottom part of the HowTo that I posted above for a link to an article that gives step by step procedures for burning images with a number of various Windows CD burning apps.

Let us know how it goes.

[anthony76]

I got it working. Thanks guys for all your help.