cdrom won't mount with var. files

[Eric Rossiter]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:42, rod holcomb wrote:
> I've got a copy of RH 8.0 but i  couldn't get it to boot. I didn't know if it was a bad burn or 
if I should pull one of my newer CD players out of a newer machine and try to see if that could 
boot.  I could get the 8.0 disk 1 to mount (back befor last night).  If I can't get 8.0 to boot 
with the newer cd player can i still do an install by booting with a 7.0 floppy disk.  
> 
> What would the command be to start the installtion/upgrade ?
> 
> 

Do you by any chance have another box, that you could use to create an
8.0 boot disk.

rawrite in Win or dd in Linux.

HTH,
Eric

> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Jason Clinton <clintonj at umkc.edu>
> Date:  Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:49:05 -0600
> 
> >rod holcomb wrote:
> >> thanks for the help i don't really don't have anything configured that I couldn't do away 
with.  maybe i'll do a reinstall.  
> >> 
> >> rod holcomb
> >>
> >
> >I would suggest doing RH 8 instead of 7.2 this time since the number of 
> >patches you'll have to apply to 7.2 after it's installed will be 
> >astronomical to make it secure. Also, RH 8 is built against GCC 3.2 
> >which hasn't significant speed increases. If you need a CD, let me know 
> >and I'll see if I can't burn you a copy.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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