There are several methods that can be used to install Red Hat Linux.
Installing from a CD-ROM requires that you have purchased a
Red Hat Linux 7.3 boxed set, or you have a
Red Hat Linux
CD-ROM, and you have a CD-ROM drive. Most new computers will allow booting
from the CD-ROM. If your system will support booting from the CD-ROM, it is
an easy way to begin a local CD-ROM installation.
You may need to create a diskette from an image
file; for example, you may need to use updated diskette
images obtained from the Red Hat Linux errata page:
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/ |
An image file contains an exact copy (or image) of a diskette's
contents. Since a diskette contains file system information in addition
to the data contained in files, the contents of the image file are not
usable until they have been written to a diskette.
To start, you will need a blank, formatted, high-density (1.44MB),
3.5-inch diskette. You will need access to a computer with a 3.5-inch
diskette drive. The computer must be able to run either an MS-DOS program
or the dd utility found on most Linux-like operating
systems.
The images directory on your Red Hat Linux CD-ROM contains the boot images for Red Hat Linux/x86 . Once you have selected the proper image (such as
boot.img for a CD-ROM-based installation or
bootnet.img for a network installation), transfer the
image file onto a diskette using one of the following methods.
To make a diskette using MS-DOS, use the rawrite
utility included on the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM in the
dosutils directory. First, label a blank, formatted
3.5-inch diskette appropriately (such as "Boot Disk" or "Updates Disk").
Insert it into the diskette drive. Then, use the following commands
(assuming your CD-ROM is drive d:):
C:\> d:
D:\> cd \dosutils
D:\dosutils> rawrite
Enter disk image source file name: ..\images\boot.img
Enter target diskette drive: a:
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and
press --ENTER-- : [Enter]
D:\dosutils> |
First, rawrite asks you for the filename of a
diskette image; enter the directory and name of the image you wish to
write (for example, ..\images\boot.img). Then
rawrite asks for a diskette drive to write the image
to; enter a:. Finally, rawrite
asks for confirmation that a formatted diskette is in the drive you have
selected. After pressing [Enter] to confirm,
rawrite copies the image file onto the diskette. If
you need to make another diskette, label that diskette, and run
rawrite again, specifying the appropriate image file.
 | Note |
|---|
| | The rawrite utility only
accepts 8.3-type file names, such as
filename.img. If you download an update image
from http://www.redhat.com
named something similar to
update-anaconda-03292002.img, you must
rename it as updates.img before you run
rawrite. |
To make a diskette under Linux (or any other Linux-like operating
system), you must have permission to write to the device representing a
3.5-inch diskette drive (known as /dev/fd0 under
Linux).
First, label a blank, formatted diskette appropriately (such as
"Boot Disk" or "Updates Disk"). Insert it into the diskette drive (but
do not issue a mount[2] command). After mounting the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM, change to the directory containing the desired image
file, and use the following command (changing the name of the image file
and diskette device as appropriate):
# dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k |
To make another diskette, label that diskette, and run
dd again, specifying the appropriate image file.
