Hi Dean, You need to tell the CD writter to put the iso image on the CD without putting a filesystem around it. How you do that depends on the burning software. Some lame software might not even do it. [[Trying hard not to say anything nasty about NT.]]
If you want to do a network install you have to do the following: Setup a dhcp server. Setup up a tftp server. Put the lifimage from the CD somewhere where the tftp server can get at it. bo lan the HP machine at the PDC screen. If ( when ) it fails work out what failed and what to fix. You can loopback mount the CD image and export it. Then install the base system via NFS. I had a few hours of fun getting a network install to work. It's worth doing just for the experience. If that seems too much like hard work buy a CD writter. Regards, Stephen Day On Tuesday 16 Oct 2001 4:01 pm, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello again. > > Thanks for your assistance, but (alas), I still require more expert > insight. As promised last week, I tried again on Monday (yesterday) > with a new CD "boot disc", but this failed too, as described in the > following mail message that I forwarded to the person who created the > CD for me. > > Hopefully, a reader will recognize what needs to be done to correctly > write the CD on an NT workstation (I have no Linux box with a writer > available). > > An alternative that was proposed was to do a network install. I am > willing to try this, but am not sure which CD image to use - and of > course, I still need to create the image. > > For a network install, is the image named "palinux-0.9.2-install.iso.gz" > correct? It is smaller than the "iso" image, being sized at 36628046 > bytes. > > I look forward to your responses. > > Dean > > -------------------the problem as it stands on Monday-------------- > > Rod: > > I'm not entirely certain, but I believe that the problem is that the > image on the CD is NOT a filesystem, but appears as a simple file. > > The image is of type: > > palinux-0.9.2.iso: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft) > > What is contained in that image is (at the top level) the following: > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7376 Jun 26 18:35 README > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 522 Jun 19 06:22 README-ISO > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jul 9 06:18 debian -> ./ > dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Jul 9 06:18 dists/ > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26624 Jun 28 09:34 iplboot > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 297 Jun 29 20:01 iso.conf > > Since the HP firmware is looking for some readable files, but only > sees "palinux-0.9.2.iso", I believe that the "bad magic" message results: > > Trying scsi.3.0 > Boot path initialized > Attempting to load IPL > > IPL error: bad LIF magic > > ...does another search for bootable devices... > > I suspect that if you cannot "open" the image when writing the CD, > then NT is not suitable for doing that step. We'll have to find a > Linux box with a writer. > > I'll attempt to confirm these suspicions with the mail list. > > Dean
