Has anybody ever gotten a linux download to work?

[BoneHeadicus]

I cant figure what the problem is.

I get the boot img and put that on the floppy and I get the iso image and burn that to the cd. When I boot up the floppy loads all its stuff but it never can find the cd img. I see the light fire up on the cd so I know its alive. This happens on both redhat 7.2 and mandrake 7.2.

Whats the secret here?

[DaveAtIFG]

Way back, under DOS you needed to load drivers before you could talk to a CD. Eventually, CDs evolved to use an IDE interface and standard Windows drivers could talk to them.

From the symptoms you describe, I'm thinking the problems is in this area. The image on the floppy isn't compatible with your CD's interface, although I'm not clear on the solution.

A couple suggestions, if the imaged floppy contains DOS, try adding a driver for your CD. If you can't do that, different hardware may be the only solution. Hang the hard drive that you want to install Linux to on a system that will read the CD and go from there...

[BoneHeadicus]

FYI

I stumbled upon a solution to my problem...when the download is finished you simply click on the icon and DirectCD will take over and burn the image to the disc.

If you try and burn the disc by using the DATA DISC option in the wizard thru the normal way of doing it...it won't work.
I dont understand why...it just works and I'm glad my 6 hrs. of download time wasn't wasted after all ;)

[BoneHeadicus]

Hey Dave...wow timing.. dude...brainwaves, huh.

It works if you do it the way I described above...like I said I don't understand the difference in the way it burns the cd..but there must be a difference.

Saved me $80 for RedHat 7.2

[littleman]

Cheapbytes [cart.cheapbytes.com] has it for $3.99.

[Brett_Tabke]

In a pinch, try the SlackWare version with the UMS DOS mods. It run under Dos filesystem and can be dl'd in on 35 meg zip file. Litterally, download, dezip, and go. Just dezip it keeping the directory structure, exit dos, and boot linux - ready to rock. (it's on sunsite in the SlackWare directory under the filename ZipSlack. The cool thing is, no reformating, no partitioning, full 100% access back and forth between linux/dos/windows files - no problem. (I don't know if they got it setup to work under 32bit filesystem or not).