[supersloth]

ok, i have all hte iso's, and ive burned them to cd's, i pop disc one in and restart the computer, but it doesnt boot from the cd, i dont know what's wrong, any idea's?

[iamcenz]

make sure your cdrom boots before your hard drive, check in your bios. i normally make mine boot like this
1st Floppy
2nd CDROM
3rd HDD-0

try that, i was having the same problem with mandrake

[supersloth]

yea, thats what im set it. i even made sure i didnt label wrong and booted with all the discs. i dont get it :-

[Cookie Mobster]

You can make a boot diskett from the cd. Goto the directory boot and there should be instructions in there.

Cheers Sam

[Cookie Mobster]

Sorry I was wrong they don't have instructions on the CD... It is like this:

1) Open a cmd prompt
2) >D:
3) >cd dosutils
4) >rawrite
Enter image source: ..imagesboot.img
Enter target drive: a:
Insert dist blah blah... [ENTER]

That will copy the boot loader onto the disk.

Cheers Sam :)

(Edited by smckone at 7:23 pm on May 22, 2002)

[supersloth]

shibby, ill try it out in a few :)

[Lee Allers]

i was thinkin it may not do it cuz its a burned c d, like when u put a tape in the vcr that you recorded on, it doesnt play till you acually press play... lol...well thats what i thought :p

[gneato]

yeah when you burn the isos there's something you have to do to make it bootable... blah... could be wrong, but mine's bootable =P

[supersloth]

ok, i got it to boot with sam's instructions. but im having problems with the partitioning. it always says "Could nto allocate requested partitions. Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions." right now the whole drive is dedicated to windows xp, so im grabbing partitiong magic 7 to set up a 10gig space for red hat. its taking forever though.

[SlashRaid]

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Quote: from supersloth on 3:22 pm on May 24, 2002
so im grabbing partitiong magic 7

I like how you put that. :wink:

(Edited by SlashRaid at 3:51 pm on May 24, 2002)

[supersloth]

;)

[Cookie Mobster]

* remembers an arguement with SlashRaid a while back on fdisk vs. partition magic *

Fdisk/diskdruid woun't allow you to resize NTFS partitions or fat for tham matter I believe.

Cheers Sam

(Edited by smckone at 4:18 pm on May 24, 2002)

[supersloth]

heheh, and what do you know, i'm on NTFS. :o

ok, yea, i got it to install, got as far as inputting the second disk, then like, the 4th file on the second disk, some stupid screensaver, won't install. i went back into windows, burned another copy of the iso, same thing. i think i need to get the second disk again. bah.

but yea, partitiong magic and such worked, as did the boot disk, so yea, i guess i'm making progress. :none:

[Cookie Mobster]

:) Did you try disabling the install of xscreensavers. GO to costom install and select "choose packages" than look for xscreen savers or something simailar. It might work then, but most likely you've got it right that you need another copy of the iso. :none:

Cheers Sam

[supersloth]

this i will try, thank you much sam.

and thank god chris had a t1 at work. lol. although if i do need a new iso, i'll have to wait till monday. :(