Dear All I had two x86 platform that I needed to install CentOS 5 on them. On one of them that had Windows OS pre-installed, I installed VBox and then I installed CentOS inside its VBox. On the second platform, I tried for a fresh installation of CentOS as its primary OS (I mean inserting the CentOS installation CD and rebooting the machine and following the instructions to install the CentOS). On the second platform, I want to install Windows OS again and as I don't find proper VM machine for my CentOS so I tried to put the Windows installation CD and reboot the machine but it was unsuccessful. Actually it didn't read the Windows installtion CD and just boots up from its CentOS . As I chose to 'remove all partitions on this machine' when installing the CentOS so I think I need to change its FAT to be able to re-install Windows OS. Can you please comment me back what was wrong on my second machine that I cannot re-install Windows OS on it? Thank you
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:03 PM, hadi motamedi motamedi24@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All I had two x86 platform that I needed to install CentOS 5 on them. On one of them that had Windows OS pre-installed, I installed VBox and then I installed CentOS inside its VBox. On the second platform, I tried for a fresh installation of CentOS as its primary OS (I mean inserting the CentOS installation CD and rebooting the machine and following the instructions to install the CentOS). On the second platform, I want to install Windows OS again and as I don't find proper VM machine for my CentOS so I tried to put the Windows installation CD and reboot the machine but it was unsuccessful. Actually it didn't read the Windows installtion CD and just boots up from its CentOS . As I chose to 'remove all partitions on this machine' when installing the CentOS so I think I need to change its FAT to be able to re-install Windows OS. Can you please comment me back what was wrong on my second machine that I cannot re-install Windows OS on it?
Hi Hadi,
I think it could be one of these things:
* Boot device priority: you should check that CDRom is the first one (it isnt that probable because you have already booted from CD at least one) * CD reader broken: you should try with another CD, to see if it works * CD broken: you should try in another computer to see if it works
AFAIK should be one of those things, beacause if Windows have any error reading the disk format, it should be pointed in the install process, I mean, you don't even have to have a disk connected to '''try''' to install it
Regarding the VM software in Linux (desktop), you have VirtualBox and VMWare. For most things that I do, I prefer VirtualBox, because its in the repositories and much faster to install:
yum install VirtualBox
Bye, Andres
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Hi Hadi,
I think it could be one of these things:
- Boot device priority: you should check that CDRom is the first one (it
isnt that probable because you have already booted from CD at least one)
- CD reader broken: you should try with another CD, to see if it works
- CD broken: you should try in another computer to see if it works
AFAIK should be one of those things, beacause if Windows have any error reading the disk format, it should be pointed in the install process, I mean, you don't even have to have a disk connected to '''try''' to install it
Regarding the VM software in Linux (desktop), you have VirtualBox and VMWare. For most things that I do, I prefer VirtualBox, because its in the repositories and much faster to install:
yum install VirtualBox
Bye, Andres
Thank you very much for your reply . Please be informed that : -Boot device priority is ok , as I checked it on BIOS CMOS - CD drive is ok , as it can read other CDs - Windows installation CD is ok , as it can be installed on other platforms I tried to install VirtualBox/VMWare on my CentOS but it didn't get through . I don't know exactly if it comes from wrong repository on my CentOS or it comes from the fact that I am trying from IRAN and it is prohibited for my country domain. Please help me and show me other alternatives.
Hadi motamedi wrote on Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:21:50 +0100:
Please help me and show me other alternatives.
Why? It is your job to figure this out. Again, please stop abusing this list for your service needs!
Kai
Actually it didn't read the Windows installtion CD and just boots up from its CentOS .
The windows install CD's are not like Linux ones. They only give you 3-5 seconds to "Press Enter to boot from CD" before they default to whatever device is next on the boot priority list.
The windows install CD's are not like Linux ones. They only give you
3-5 seconds to "Press Enter to boot from CD" before they default to whatever device is next on the boot priority list.
-- Drew
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie _______________________________________________
You are right. My installation media really has problem. Thank you
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