Install Linux how???

[scap]

I have installed before however on the computer i am trying to do this it doesn't have the option of booting from the cd (really old) so how would i do this.

Thanks
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Its red hat 7.1 by the way

 

[foshdawg]

if the comptuer or you have a zip drive, you can use ZipSlack from slackware to load a scaled down version of slackware onto a zip disk and load it from that.

 

[Visidex]

Try updating the BIOS first, that may let you boot from cd. Else you'll have to make a boot disk. Look at RedHat's site for bootdisk images.

 

[scap]

Well i figured it out. Anyways for anyone in the future this is what you do.

1. Find a DOS disk (an old win 98 boot disk will work)

2. put the linux cd in the cd rom

3. use the DOS utils dir on the cd and run rawrite.exe

4, point it to make the following disk from files out of the image folder boot.img bootnet.img and drivers.img

5. Use those to load up Linux

yey !!!

 

[madturk]

you're going to have to make a boot disc from the redhat cd. mount both a empty floppy and the redhat installation disc. go the folder with the boot.img file then issue this command as root :

# dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

the file boot.img is in the images folder on the cd.