Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD

From	Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD
Date	2011-07-24 10:56 -0400
Organization	PWN - Penguins With Nukes
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On 2011-07-24, Daku <dakupoto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could some Linux guru please kindly help ? I had an older machine
> running RHEL 4.0, which I wanted to upgrade with Fedora 14. I
> downloaded the ISO files from http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/i386/iso/
> and used the Nero tool on a Windows XP machine. I burnt the ISO files
> on to the CDs using the option '... as a Data CD'. No problems at all
> during the burning.
> When I insert CD #1 into the CD ROM drive of my computer, I get the
> whining noise, but then no installation start screen appears. When I
> re-insert the CD of the old RHEL 4 and start the machine, immediately
> the installation start screen shows up on screen.
> Could someone please kindly let me know what to do to get around this
> issue ?
> Thanks in advance for your help.

Burn as an image, not as a data CD. If you burn as a data CD, when you
examine the disk, you will see only the .iso file.


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Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD Daku <dakupoto@gmail.com> - 2011-07-24 07:13 -0700
  Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD SomeBloke <stuff@stuff.com> - 2011-07-24 14:35 +0000
  Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-07-24 10:56 -0400
  Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-07-24 15:41 +0000
    Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-24 16:20 +0000
      Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-07-24 13:12 -0400
        Re: Request Urgent Help -- machine does not recognise install CD J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-24 17:18 +0000

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