Jim, Have you booted the CD in another computer? If not, you need to be able to boot the CD. When you are able to boot the CD then the installation process will identify the hard drive and partition it for you. It will do an automatically generated configuration or you can do a manual configuration. The automatically generated configuration will work for you. If the CD will boot in another computer you need to look at the motherboard, bios, and the CD reader in the computer you are having trouble with. If the CD will not boot in another computer you need to make another CD and be sure you write a bootable image. You will probably need to specifically instruct the CD writing software to make it write a bootable image. HTH Stuart
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Jim Fleig - CNC Services <j...@cncservices.ws> wrote: > The tower has booted! > > Thank you for all of the replies. I read (but did not understand) all of > them. It seemed to make sense to me to focus on trying to boot with a > floppy because the DBAN floppy would boot every time. It took a long time > to find and then a couple of attempts to get hal91 to write to a floppy > correctly. If this would be helpful to anyone else, hal91 is available > here: http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm. > > I'm almost (skip the almost, I am) afraid to do anything next. Now that > hal91 is up and running there is a fdisk command available. I have looked > this up on the internet and I do not understand all that I am reading. I > have partitioned hard drives for Windows based CNC control systems with > instructions from the manufacturer. This was successful because of the > specific instructions. I did not interpret generic commands and decide how > to partition the drive. Right now I am not even sure if fdisk is the next > thing to do. Is there a command to check the hard drive? Are there > commands for checking the other parts of the system? CD drive, motherboard, > RAM, etc.? If there are commands for making these checks and all of the > checks pass would fdisk be the next thing to do? > > Thanks again for all the replies. > > I look forward to the next instructions and hopefully the next step of > progress to be up and running again. > > Have a good day, > > Jim Fleig > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- you can lead a person to knowledge but you cannot make him think ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
