On Friday 20 May 2005 16:33, Amira Youssef wrote: > Hello, > > I've a problem booting from the cdrom although the cd drive is wokring > fine. I had to boot from a rescue drive and then root.bin "worked and when > it start asking about the soure to install the kernel I selected the crom > to avoid using many floppies and the cd was detected. > > My question is the cd I used is the first cd.iso in the cd images, is that > right 1- You have to burn the cd.iso as "cd image" not as "data cd". 2- The easiest way (I know) is to download and burn the "net install" cd then you can complete the rest of installation via the internet.
3- for newbies I would recommend knoppix or Kanotix live cd (both gives you selection of kernel 2.4.x OR 2.6.6). Generally I would recommend using Grub as boot loader and kernel 2.6.11.8 for the ease of hardware detection. > as it always searching for a file called images1.44/... or should I > create a cd with the floppies base file? the iso CD's includes this booting files ,so you do not need that step. > Thanks & Rgds, you are welcome. Mohammad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
