[NTLUG:Discuss] install enterprise Linux on new HP PC

[Mike Hart]

1. The boot DVD you used on that box, will it start another box?  
    (yes) did you use compatible media 

            (DVD-RAM +, DVD-RAM -, DVD-R+, DVD-R-, are all discrete technologies, does this DVD drive support your media?)
            contact HP support for another DVD drive or use correct media type to make DVD.
    (no?) get an ISO burner program such as
        http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
1b. when created as an ISO will it boot on the troubled box?
    (yes) You are happy
    (no) find the DVD from another mirror.. it's got bugs. 


Other helpful troubleshooting ideas. 

2. will a verifiable boot CD start up on that box. (puppyLinux or something that is small.)
3. does the DVD drive show up in diagnostics? 

4. (assuming the DVD is SATA), can you install the DVD into a port lower than the hard drive and produce the same effect? (



________________________________
 From: Steve Martindell <steve.martindell at gmail.com>
To: discuss at ntlug.org 
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 2:16 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] install enterprise Linux on new HP PC
 
We just purchased a new HP workstation that came with FreeDOS as the
only installed OS.
It also comes with the ~latest SuSE SLED and RHEL DVDs, which HP
intended to work
on this machine. This machine will be used to run Cadence IC design
tools under Linux.

--> I want to install SuSE SLED.

--> In the PC setup menu, the boot order is: optical, then USB, then Hard-drive.

Note, the last time I installed SuSE linux, was OpenSUSE 10.3 in ~2008
timeframe.
At that time, I just inserted the Linux DVD#1, restarted the PC, and
went thru the install
procedure.

But now, when I insert the SLED(or the RHEL) DVD and restart, it
always comes up to FreeDOS OS.

--> so I guess theses are not bootable-installation DVD's
--> or the drivers for the DVD are not in the BIOS !?
     when I do "D: <cr>" , FreeDOS can't see the DVD drive
--> when I look at the DVD's on another PC, there is a GLIBC directory
and some other
     directories that don't contain OS stuff, and an "install.sh" script.
--> and HP doesn't provide any install instructions !?

Question --> so how do these "enterprise" versions of Linux install on
the HP PC ?
   --> the DVD's don't boot !?

   --> we don't do installs from the local network,

   --> do I ftp from FreeDOS to get a large tar of the OS ?

   --> anyone here have any experience with HP PC and Enterprise Linux install ?

  thanks
     steve martindell

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