I had this problem, but it turned out to be a loose cdrom. I was able to
install from another cdrom through a network with the bootnet.img floppy
starting the process. (Used cdrom for sale.;^)
Rick Herrem
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:57:58 -0400 <
alandd@mindspring.com> writes:
> I have a set of RH7.3 CDs that have been successfully used on two
> computers and at least one other by someone else. My successes have
> been with computers that were able to boot off the CD and install
> from there.
>
> I have another computer that does not have the brains to boot from
> the CD. I sucessfully did a floppy boot install with RH7.2 on this
> same computer.
>
> I made an install boot floppy that starts up fine but when the
> install gets to the point of reading the CD, it fails. It attempts
> to spin up several times for several minutes and eventually fails.
>
>
> I am assuming this is a bad CD that works OK for booting but not for
> floppy installs. That puzzles me, however, because I would think
> that boot from CD or floppy would use most of the same files on the
> CD at the point the floppy install fails. Anyone else have any
> hints here? Do I need to go buy some new CDs?
>
> Alan
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