[WBEL-users] Installing Whitebox on AMD64

Grant Mills gmills@rdinstruments.com
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:04:35 -0700


The WBEL Download page has a comment dated June 17, 2004 stating that
the x86_64 images aren't bootable.  If you downloaded the images before
that date, you might not have seen the notice.

Grant

> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Phil Schaffner
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:41 AM
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Installing Whitebox on AMD64
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 17:16 -0400, Chris Audley wrote:
> > I've downloaded the ISO images for AMD64, but everytime I 
> try and boot
> > my machine with them, the BIOS complains that there is no 
> system image.
> > I've verified the MD5 on the download and burned the disk twice.
> > 
> > Is this expected?  What is the correct procedure for starting the
> > installation?
> 
> If you mount CD#1 what do you see?  A number of files
> 
> # ls /mnt/cdrom
> autorun   fedora  isolinux   origSRPMS             
> README-x86_64     RELEASE-NOTES-en.html    
> RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en.html  RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat
> dosutils  GPL     lostRPMS   README                
> README-x86_64-en  RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64     RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64.html
> EULA      images  lostSRPMS  README-Accessibility  RedHat     
>        RELEASE-NOTES-x86_64-en  RPM-GPG-KEY
> 
> or one, something like "liberation-respin1-binary-x86_64-1.iso"?
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
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