Hi,

My dear friends,
I am trying to install red hat linux. I have downloaded its disc1. On the instructions page, the next stage is to make the boot disk, so that I can boot from the floppy. However, I am unable to locate the boot image iso file. I tried on google, but I got a few files which were huge and impossible to fit in a floppy.

I am stuck up here and i need help. I want someone to help me get a red hat linux boot floppy, so i can start the installation.

besides, I have the downloaded iso file on the hard disk, on one of the windows partition
I want to know if i can install red hat linux on the same partition

regards

You need to burn the disc1 iso file to CD. On the CD there will be an "images" directory. Since it does not appear you have linux already running, you will need to use 'rawrite' to write the image to a floppy. The image is a floppy image, it's not a boot file so you can't just copy it to the floppy, you have to reimage the floppy so to speak.

I found the files on
www.linuxmigration.com

Thanks & regards

Hi,

I managed to boot the system with the bootimg rawritten on the floppy.
further i am prompted for the iso file
I have it on the hard disk, so i select that option.
my hard disks c:, d:, e: and f: are represented as /dev/hda1, /dev/hda5 thru 7.
I have the shrike-i386-disc1.iso file on d:
So I select the /dev/hda5 device but i get a error saying that the iso image cannot be found. I am stuck with the linux installation here

Can some one guide me form here onwards

Regards

P.S. My D drive is FAT32 formatted (windows XP)