CD-ROM install

[FatherBoard]

I am tryin to install RH 9.0 onto a HD using 3 CD's with the iso files on them.... I put the bootdisk.img file onto the first disk and made sure that my computer is booting from the CD-Rom first.... Is this wrong? If so what files or file am i supposed to have and could you show me where...

[andutt]

Did you verify you cd:s or checked the keys??...otherwise the image-files can be corrupted. Otherwise all you have to do is to download the image files and burn them on a cd as an image. And then reboot with the cd inserted in your cd-drive.

Regards

[Dolda2000]

You're not supposed to write the bootdisk.img on a CD. That's only if you want a boot floppy, but the first ISO image is bootable. If you need a boot floppy (if, for example, your BIOS can't boot from ATAPI devices), you just write bootdisk.img to a floppy and you can boot from that instead. In any case, you're not supposed to write it to a CD.

[FatherBoard]

how do i check to see if it is not corrupted exactally? I read about that but couldnt understand what they meant.... and if the .iso is bootable why isnt it booting.... would it not boot if i have the bootdisk.img on the CD?

[yowwww]

how exactly did you burn the images?
what software are you using?

[FatherBoard]

I used nero....I know there is some way i have to change the burning...just cant figure it out....

[yowwww]

nope, just make sure you burn it either one of these two ways:

file-burn image

or using the nero wizard:

create new cd, other cd projects, iso and images

it must be burned as an image and NOT as a data cd.

just making sure

you definitely don't need a bootdisk, the cd is bootable as long as you set your bios to boot from cd rom

[FatherBoard]

Ok.... I am gonna try now..I appreciate your help and will tell you if it works....If not..your dead... ....have a nice day!

[bmxface]

you have to burn them to a cd as an image and to do that with nero..if i remeber correctly you have to close everything(includniog the wizard) then go to file then burn image or something like that and then do what you need to do from there

[FatherBoard]

Yeah..I am burning as we speak.... so cross you fingers....