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

[agoats at compuserve.com]

I recently did some upgrading at home and had similar issues. It turned 
out to be cable issues to the DVD.

Also check the BIOS more thoroughly, there is a spot in mine that will 
bypass the standard BIOS boot order and boot a specific device only, 
then fail through to default and boot through floppy, DVD, next hard drive.

Alvin.

On 03/11/2012 02:16 PM, Steve Martindell wrote:
> 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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