[olug] CD Boot problems and Network Installs Slow Speed

[CM Miller]

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~floydian/md5/download.html

Go hear to download a free iso checker, it is what I
use and it is called md5sum.

--- Mike Peterson
<mpeterson at mail.charlesfurniture.com> wrote:
> Did you do an md5sum check on it also?
> 
> I have a windows GUI free hash checker program and a
> console and also free hash checker program I use.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Nate 
>   To: olug at olug.org 
>   Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:18 PM
>   Subject: Re: [olug] CD Boot problems and Network
> Installs Slow Speed
> 
> 
>   I am running an AMD 300 mhz with a Lite-On CD
> Burner That I'm trying to boot the disk from.  It
> boots a Red Hat 
>   Psyche disk but it won't boot this Mandrake 9 iso.
>  The byte count is the same on the downloaded  file
> as the one on the mirror site so I figured it 
>   downloaded ok.  
> 
>   Thanks,
>   Nate
> 
>   Mike Peterson wrote:
> 
> I had the same problem with Redhat 8.0 on a Pentium
> 233 with an older CD ROM
> Drive in it.
> 
> I did a network install via HTTP and then the IDE
> Controller started acting
> up.
> I switched to a P III 450 and all is working fine.
> I have Redhat 8.0 network install setup on 2
> internet accessible servers.
> 
> If anyone is interested send me an email off list?
> 
> I did 10 network installs last night for a class and
> only 7 completed.
> 3 blue screened during the package gather step.
> I did 3 test runs and the installs took 2-3 hours.
> One test run was from a P4 Windows XP Apache Server
> and
> Two test runs were from external and internal Redhat
> 8.0 Servers.
> 
> Last night with Redhat 8.0 and Apache 2.0 that comes
> with it deploying
> Redhat 8.0 it took 4.5 hours for all to complete up
> to the restart step.
> 
> Has anyone worked with speeding up Apache 2.0
> performance yet?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Grothe" <grothe at earthlink.net>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Mandrake CD
> 
> 
>   
> I had a similar problem with Redhat 8.0.  We had a
> machine that could boot
> off of the cd-rom but couldn't boot off the 8.0
> cd-roms.  Our machines
>     
> were
>   
> old Microns Pentium 166s to give you an idea of
> about where I think the
> cut off is.
> 
> Mandrake 9.0 moved from using syslinux to isolinux. 
> Syslinux emulates a
> 2.88mb floppy at the front of the cd-rom, isolinux
> doesn't.
> 
> You'll have to cut the boot floppies and install
> with those.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Aaron
> =-=-=
> "The Journey is the Reward" - Old Zen Buddhist
> Saying
> 
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Nate <tbrownarcher at cox.net>
> Sent: 01/16/03 08:26 PM
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Mandrake CD
> 
>     
> I was trying to install the CD's (iso"s) I
> downloaded for Mandrake 9.0.
>       
>  This Set of CD's don't seem to be Bootable.  Has
> anyone else
> noticed this and is it fixable?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate
> 
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