Re: Installing from a DOS partition

["Scott G. Ainsworth" <sainsworth mantech tidewater com>]

Just make sure that the RedHat directory is in the root of your DOS
partition and use RedHat's hard disk install option.  The RedHat directory
is the one that contains the RPMS, instiamge, and base directories.  Of
course, you also must have space available on the hard disk to create your
Linux partitions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joanna Bryson <joannab dai ed ac uk>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 12:42 PM
Subject: Installing from a DOS partition



>Sorry for the repetition, I wrote about this last week, I thought I'd
>try one more time ---
>
>I need to install linux on a machine with a very non-standard ethernet
>card, so I'd like to load the installation into the (largely empty)
>DOS partition and do the install from there.  The How-To explains how
>to do this, but it appears that RedHat 4.2 no longer supports all the
>utilities required.  The utilities are basically hacks around
>
> a) finding and quickly ftping the right things to download, and
> b) making the names the right length for a DOS file system.
>
>Does anyone know if there is a currently supported way to do this that
>I'm just missing?  The install program still certainly has the hard
>drive option, and one of the directories you need to download still
>has DOS freindly names.  Am I just missing something?
>
>If not, I'll tear my beast apart and try putting a regular ethernet
>card in it, but I'd really rather not do this.
>
>Joanna
>
>
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