trying to get linux up and running on a frankenstein box. i am newb from head to toe (as far as installing linux goes). what i know of my frankenstein hodge-podge box:
amd k6 processor
24 megs ram
1 - 500 mb hd (fat)
1 - 2 gb hd (fat32)
1 - ide cd-rom (atapi i think)
1 - good old floppy drive
i got the 3 disc images redhat 9.0 downloaded (i am using my other computer to do this stuff: g4 mac with osx, but i am installing on the aforementioned intel machine). i ran the md5checksum and made sure the download was good. i burned the images (succesfully, osx tells me) onto three cdrs. i set my bios to boot from cd-rom. when i put the 1st disc in and power up my system, bios processes, and then it says "booting from cd-rom". it waits a bit and i get this:
ISOLINUX 2.0 2002-10-25 isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 429B,9F
and that's where it sits until i kill it.
any advice?
thanks in advance.
amd k6 processor
24 megs ram
1 - 500 mb hd (fat)
1 - 2 gb hd (fat32)
1 - ide cd-rom (atapi i think)
1 - good old floppy drive
i got the 3 disc images redhat 9.0 downloaded (i am using my other computer to do this stuff: g4 mac with osx, but i am installing on the aforementioned intel machine). i ran the md5checksum and made sure the download was good. i burned the images (succesfully, osx tells me) onto three cdrs. i set my bios to boot from cd-rom. when i put the 1st disc in and power up my system, bios processes, and then it says "booting from cd-rom". it waits a bit and i get this:
ISOLINUX 2.0 2002-10-25 isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 429B,9F
and that's where it sits until i kill it.
any advice?
thanks in advance.