Problem while installing linux
 

hi,
When i was trying to install linux in my new system.There is some proble which i'm not able to sort out inpite of all my logical tries plus hit and trial method.
The problem is when intalling they are asking for drive where the linux to be installed is.When i choose local cd rom i got the option of SCSI drive only.
when i press ok on SCSI as this is only the option i got names of some drive....i tried choosing everyone of them but it comes back to that SCSI option again.
Already referred some books on linux but,can't find of this little scrap.Please help.
mail me at khuman_nb@rediffmail.com

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

What distro are you trying to install?

Is it asking you for the source location or the target location to install Linux to?

Do you have any SCSI hard drives on the system, or just a SCSI CD-ROM drive?

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

Yes, and the specific version of the distro as well.

A couple of questions:

1. Have you created a partition or at least free space on the hard drive where you want to install Linux?

2. Are you booting you system directly from the Linux installation CD, or are you trying to do the install while booted into another operating system?

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

Hi

I have sort of the same problem Installing Red Hat only I get all the options

ie:

Local cdrom

Hard Drive

NFS image

etc.

Now I have booted off of disk 1 in the CDROM DRIVE

I get to the point where it says what media contains the packages to be installed

I pick Local CdrOM

It flashes up a window and says the disk is not in the drive..............all the software it has used to this point has been off of the cdrom Linux 1 disk

It is like when it goes through the list of drivers and all its pre install set up it loses the CDROM driver.

Has anyone seen this before.

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

If you burned the disks yourself, did you verify the integrity (MD5sums) of the downloaded iso images? Did you verify the media?

Have you used the disks to (successfully) install on any other machines?

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

Hi,

It sounds to me that jtf27 is installing in text mode. It is also amazing how a bad set of disks can kill an installation... I had a bad floppy go bad on me once and that caused it to try and mess up the FTP installation mode I was using.

Good luck with it!

Christian

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

Hi

Thanks for the replies.

I do not have the knowledge to do checksums.......perhaps you could explain what you mean ...I can be taught....well sometimes I am getting old.

I did try both text mode and Graphical I have had this problem installing windows many times it gets to a point and for some reason it no longer has a driver for the cdrom I believe it has to do with the IDE drivers and the motherboard. With windows you just have to shut it down and start up again in the install mode re pick up the Windows IDE controllers further in the Install.

I will try and download disk 1 again.............should I burn it at a particular speed and settings. Disk at once etc was already set as part of the image I downloaded.


Thanks again.

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

The MD5sums check is pretty straight ahead- your download site should have the MD5sums checksum numbers available for each of the particular isos you got. You then run the MD5sums program on each of the isos and compare the resulting checksum numbers against the ones you got from the site; if they don't match, that means the download got corrupted. More info on the procedure, including links to the MD5sums program download, can be found here:
http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/verifyiso.html

You want to do a DAO burn, and I personally tend to go kind of conservative on the burn speed when burning things like system disks. It's also a good idea to have your burning software do a media verification on the CDs.

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

Hi

It was the disk image.thank you.

Re: Problem while installing linux
 

Yeah, it happens a lot.

Did you manage to pull down a good one?