I had no issues installing astaro from CD boot. They said they have no plans to do any floppy boot. if it helps one of the Beta 2 versions I was playing with gave me tons of errors on lower speed CD-roms. Just check to see if you have a good speed reader
Mainboard: Aopen AX59Pro CPU: K6-2 400Mhz CD-rom Drive: Aopen 40x Ram: 64MB, not sure what brand Floppy: standard 1.44, not sure what brand Harddrive: 13.6GB, Western Digital.(Cavariar I think) Network adapters: 2xUnex PCI 10/100 Display adapter: SIS something
The error is: ISOLINUX 1.65 2001-12-15 isolinux: Failed to get sector size, assuming 0800 isolinux: disk error 01, drive 9F Boot failed: press a key to retry
Uhm.. never mind, I just found out I was using an ancient bios, and after upgradig to latest it worked.
In case anyone else have the same problem:
quote: Starting in version 1.65, ISOLINUX supports booting disk images of other operating systems. However, this feature depends on BIOS functionality which is apparently broken in a very large number of BIOSes. Therefore, this may not work on any particular system. No direct workaround is possible; if you find that it doesn't work please complain to your vendor and indicate that "BIOS INT 13h AX=4C00h fails." Note that you can use MEMDISK as an alternative; MEMDISK is not affected by this problem, but limits the size of the disk images, since it has to load them into memory.
The int13h fix was in my bios update, if anyone else have the same problem this might help.
Yeah, that's the BIOS problem I was talking about. Here's my hardware, which even after a BIOS update, doesn't boot with the CDROM.
IBM PC300/350 Model 6587 Western Digital 2.5 GB hard drive 96MB RAM 8X IDE CDROM (also tried with a Teac 40X) NICS: 1 DLINK RTL8029, 1 Netgear FA311 (Natsemi), 1 RTL8139 (8139too) Display: S3 Trio BIOS updated to one from 1999. Still probably too old. [:(]
I had similar problems with the 3.030 CD. I have easily installed v2 and v3.020 on this PC, but get Isolinux boot error 20 whe trying to install 3.030. Downloaded and burned the image twice. Not sure what the problem is. Any ideas people? Thanks Josh
I had a dell dimension P3 600 that refused to load 2.016 properly. Tried different cd roms and different hard drives. Would always have smtp errors. 3.02 worked flawlessly.
Am now using an old p2 beater for production and got another for my test bed. will load 3.03 tomorrow.
