New install question/problem

Chumpchange · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 9

System: 1 Ghz AMD Athlon, Nvidia Gforce 4 64mb video card, 512 MB RAM, Motherboard ABIT KT7 RAID.

What I have done so far:
I installed a brand new hard drive 120G Maxtor, formated it and set the Bios to have the CD-ROM boot first. I downloaded the LiveCD v. 1.4 CD-1 ISO file and burned it to a CD.

Problem:
Upon booting the computer I get the message that the CD-ROM does not contain a system disk (or something to that effect). I've also tried using a 98 boot disk as well as the Boot Manager program suggested by these forums to no avail. This doesn't seem to be a bootable disk like the Install Directions say it should be.

What Im attempting to build is a stand alone digital recorder/player (using Freevo).

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks

cchapman · Guru Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 440 Location: Fremont, NE

Have you done an MD5 checksum on the CD?
Are you sure you download disk 1?

Barkotron · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:59 am Post subject: what he said...

but also, are you certain that you burned the CD using the iso image, rather than just burning the .iso to the CD?

If you put the CD in another machine, what do you see? Do you have lots of various files, or do you see the .iso file?

If you see the .iso file, then you need to burn another CD, but this time using the image, depending on what you're using to burn the CD this can be done in different ways - if you say what burning program you're using, I'm sure someone would be able to suggest how to do it

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Chumpchange · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 9

You may have something here Barkotron. All I have is the ISO file (500+ MB). I don't see alot of files, just the one.

The buring software I used was called PrimoCD (it came with my burner).

Ill have to read up on what an image file is. The instructions were not clear on what exactly to download. It just said to download the .iso file.

Any suggestions on a better burning software is welcome as well. I know there are alot out there.

Thanks again for the input.

frenkel · Veteran Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 1034 Location: .nl

Look for an option called burn image to cd or something, I don't know if your program has, if it doesn't try a progam like Nero. This will burn it the correct way, so you'll be able to boot the CD.

Good luck,
Frank
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Chumpchange · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 9

OK, I'll go buy Nero today after work and give it another try. Thanks for all the input. Very pleasing to see a helpfull Linux community.

dfuse · Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 395 Location: Belgium

Buy Nero to install Linux?? Just use the demo version...