[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[Chris Cox]

fredjame wrote:
...
> Beginning with RH9 (I skipped from 7.3 to 9, so I have never tried 8.x) 
> I am fan of Mandrake (editorial note: of Mandrake, I have only tried 9.1).
> However, as to failing to boot an install from CD - my experience is 
> this is fixed by making a floppy from the boot.img file on the CD, and 
> booting from the floppy - not going to work on a system that doesn't 
> have a floppy drive, of course.

The problem isn't in booting, the DL380 boots the CD fine... then
when it says what do you want to install from... it says it cannot
find a CDROM device (strange when you realize that it boots
off of the CD just fine).