Installing RH 7.1 from CD

[foodog]

On my home machine I wasn't able to boot from the CD (due to some goofy
BIOS fluke).  I made a boot disk with \IMAGES\BOOT.IMG and didn't have
big problems.  

It had some trouble detecting my mouse unless I was jiggling it around
while anaconda was looking for it - I'm using a Logitech wireless kb &
mouse.  The first time it couldn't find the mouse it wanted to do a
non-graphical install.  I did a ctrl+alt+del, jiggled the mouse at the
appropriate time and it was happy.

I tried to select a Logitech mouse on the second boot and doomed that
run (mouse cursor frozen at the bottom of the screen until reboot).  The
third time through I mouse-jiggled, clicked buttons and used the
wheel... It didn't see the mouse, non graphical.  On the 4th try
everything finally cooperated and the rest of the install went fine - I
was kinda bummed I couldn't have it install ReiserFS but there's a boot
image downloadable that supports it - I may try that later on today if
my "undisturbed computer time" holds out :-) :-)

One very minor annoyance.  It has an entry for 'Logitech iTouch'
keyboard, but still doesn't seem to know about 'cordless wheel mouse'. 
I used 'generic 3-button'.

FWIW, I booted from the ISO CD on a box at work and everything ran
flawlessly.  Maybe Redhat's trying to emulate the famous Microsoft
Code-that-executes-differently-every-time technology?

Steve

Craig White wrote:
> 
> I'm a bit perplexed.
> 
> Have Redhat 7.1 (seawolf) cd's. (Thanks again David)
> 
> Boot directly from Cd - go into install mode - text mode for some reason
> taht I don't really care, affirm US & English and then it asks me if install
> files are located on CD or Hard Drive. I tell it Cd and installer reports
> that it can't find the CD but of course, it's the Cd that I booted from so I
> am a bit perplexed. Anyone else tried to install 7.1 booting from ISO?
> 
> Craig
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