Randy,

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Randy Merritt wrote:

> I'm a new member of the SL community and am in the
> process of installing SL 4.0 on a new hard disk.  I've
> hit a snag in the booting of the install process and I
> think it's because I don't fully understand the
> process.
> 
> To make a long story short: are the iso images of SL
> 4.0 bootable?  If not, could someone describe, or
> point me to, the process of building a CD set that
> would boot and install SL 4.0?

Disc1 is bootable.  The others are not.

> 
> My 4 iso images were downloaded from:
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40/iso/i386
> 
> Each .iso file md5sum matched it's MD5 sum value from
> the list also found at the folder above.
> 
> The CD burn process was done from the discussion found
> at:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php?action=viewarticle&artid=243
> 
> My CD burn environment is virtually identical to the
> author's and my burn appeared to work fine - no error
> conditions of any kind were noted.

So did the first cd boot?  If not what error did you get?  Did you set 
your bios to boot off of cd?

> 
> I've come across an alternative location containing a
> 'boot.iso'.
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40/i386/images/SL/README

This images uses install files located "via the network".  So you need a 
place where you have the install files located.  This could either be a 
local mirror of ftp.scientificlinux.org 40/i386 area or the files on the 
iso images located to a network area.

> 
> The README found there has the comment:
> 
> "The boot.iso file is an ISO 9660 image of a bootable
> CD-ROM.  It is useful
> in cases where the CD-ROM installation method is not
> desired ..."
> 
> I'm looking to perform a CD-based install so this
> comment gave me pause in proceeding with boot.iso. 
> Rather than burning more CD's in the hope that I m
> getting close can someone give a brief list of
> instructions on what to burn, where, and how?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> r.m.
> 
> p.s. please feel free to respond to me directly
> 
> 
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