How to install RHEL 6.1 ,laptop doesn't recognize the same DVD later!!

[getasif]

Hello there I get to a point where installation is stuck because my laptop doesn't recognize the Dvd

its strange the DVD was created using WINDOWS 7 default image burner - Roxio I guess on a different laptop.

I get "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux disc was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert ~ and press OK to retry.

is this a driver(s) issue ..I was able to install RHEL 5.5 Server without any problems on this same laptop ....

I cant understand whats going wrong ... I have also tried nomodetest acpi=off but this doesn't help either ..Please let me know if there is a a solution for this please help ...thanks again to you all.....

[Rubberman]

When you install RHEL 6.x, there should be an option to verify the installation media. If there is a problem reading it, this will detect it before you start the installation proper. At least Scientific Linux 6.x (an RHEL clone) does this. I assume RHEL 6.x proper also does so.

[getasif]

When you install RHEL 6.x, there should be an option to verify the installation media. If there is a problem reading it, this will detect it before you start the installation proper. At least Scientific Linux 6.x (an RHEL clone) does this. I assume RHEL 6.x proper also does so.

hello there the burn was successful and I was able to boot the RHEL 6.1 stable, and about RHEL 5.5 - yes it was burnt using NERO in windows XP and not with default burning software in WIN 7.No errors were found while/after burning ..

RHEL 5.5 SERVER TIKANGA bootable dvd works fine even now on my laptop and other systems too.

the RHEL 6.1 DVD has not got any scratches etc.....its good,the message box for media test just doesn't show up


I am able to select the keyboard layout etc .... but at one point it asks for the media and I select DVD rom ...but its says not found - the error message i described above.


I came across one blog if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/red-hat-6-installation-guide-rhel-6-install-screenshots/ where guys had posted similar kind of issues while installing ...

[getasif]

ok ..I have tried installing RHEL 6.1 from USB pendrive ..using a software called Unetbootin I first made the normal 4gb pendrive into a bootable USB system and its very fast ...I get to the screen where I need to select the devices and I choose

“Basic storage device.” at this point the system shows the round animation of cursor and then the error message comes up...

I have attached to this post the photo of the error message ..its readable though ..my apologies I took it from a 1.3 mp camera..



its says STARTING GRAPHICAL INSTALLATION ....BACKTRACE HAS 20 CALLS CALLS ON STACK........................

please let me know any more troubleshooting steps ..i have got this far ..may be I can complete the installation since I believe RHEL 6.1 can also be installed on laptop.

I am not proving anybody wrong its just that i came across the post which mentions that Linux now adays can be installed on almost new compatible hardware ...

Thanks to you all again for the help and support

[atreyu]

Yes, you should be able to install RHEL 6.1 on a laptop. What is the make/model, btw?

Have you tried running the install in text mode, to remove graphics as a potential issue?

The libparted call seems to go haywire, maybe can you boot into rescue mode and output the contents of this command to show what the installer thinks is attached, hard-disk wise:

fdisk -l

[yancek]

At the top of the image you posted, the first line beginning with "Running Anaconda..." ends with Please... and goes off screen. What comes after the Please?
On the line immediately below, there appear to be two words to the left of "-time of 300 seconds....", what are they?

You did an md5checksum after download?
I believe what Rubberman was referring to above is on most Linux installation media, when you boot the CD/DVD you get a menu with several options, boot from hard disk, try without installing, install and usually one is test the disk. You don't see that when you boot?

[getasif]

Yes, you should be able to install RHEL 6.1 on a laptop. What is the make/model, btw?

Have you tried running the install in text mode, to remove graphics as a potential issue?

The libparted call seems to go haywire, maybe can you boot into rescue mode and output the contents of this command to show what the installer thinks is attached, hard-disk wise:

fdisk -l

Hello Atreyu

heres the shot taken for the command fdisk -l

Please let me know about how to troubleshoot linuxparted and the python related errors


make of laptop : DELl vostro 1310,1gb ram,160 gb hdd, intel 965 chipset
Thanks and regards

[getasif]

Dear Yancek ...I haven't done MD5 checksum for the downloaded file ..i downloaded it from torrent though...This is the latest shot and this time I have inserted the bootable USB drive and I would be installing the linux from this USB drive ....when i insert the DVD the menu is of only 4 options and there after it takes awfully long to come to the point where it asks the "select the driver disk image" and if I select /dev/scr0 it goes off with error and other options aren' usefull

the above shot is while I selected the DVD/CD option and not the harddisk option....so please dont be confused....

thanks and regards

[Rubberman]

If the md5sum of the downloaded disc image agrees with the posted values, then it may be that your BIOS is not configured properly. This is not uncommon when trying to install a recent version of Linux on a laptop that has been running Windows operating systems.

[getasif]

If the md5sum of the downloaded disc image agrees with the posted values, then it may be that your BIOS is not configured properly. This is not uncommon when trying to install a recent version of Linux on a laptop that has been running Windows operating systems.

Ok I have finally resolved it by myself ...I installed nero and took a new blank dvd,burnt the image with nero and then rebooted the laptop ..and it all worked I was able to install customized packages for a total of 1635 ...it even gave the message INSTALLING BOOTLOADER at the end.The DVD was ejected automatically and on the screen I clicked on the message box that read "REBOOT"

After rebooting guess what!!! the GRUB wasn't installed and i was booted into WINDOWS XP ...so now that I have had a normal installation ,the grub isn't available to me .....

any ideas about how to fix this now........


thanks for all the help