I had this problem, but it turned out to be a loose cdrom. I was able to
install from another cdrom through a network with the bootnet.img floppy
starting the process. (Used cdrom for sale.;^) 

Rick Herrem


On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:57:58 -0400 <alandd@mindspring.com> writes:
> I have a set of RH7.3 CDs that have been successfully used on two 
> computers and at least one other by someone else.  My successes have 
> been with computers that were able to boot off the CD and install 
> from there.
> 
> I have another computer that does not have the brains to boot from 
> the CD.  I sucessfully did a floppy boot install with RH7.2 on this 
> same computer.
> 
> I made an install boot floppy that starts up fine but when the 
> install gets to the point of reading the CD, it fails.  It attempts 
> to spin up several times for several minutes and eventually fails.  
> 
> 
> I am assuming this is a bad CD that works OK for booting but not for 
> floppy installs.  That puzzles me, however, because I would think 
> that boot from CD or floppy would use most of the same files on the 
> CD at the point the floppy install fails.  Anyone else have any 
> hints here?  Do I need to go buy some new CDs?
> 
> Alan
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