Re: Help!! College Project due ASAP!!! How do I install REDHAT 7.0 on...

["Pete Peterson" <petersonp genrad com>]

> From redhat-install-list-admin redhat com  Mon Feb  5 08:28:22 2001
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> Subject: Help!! College Project due ASAP!!! How do I install REDHAT 7.0 on...
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> From: "Shoshanna Rene" <Shoshanna_Rene monterey edu>
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> Well,  I had hope to be further ahead than this by now...I have only 2
> more days and nights to get my 'dual booting' of REDHAT 7.0 and Windows
> '98 machine fully operational...with my Apache Web Server up and running,
> my webpages on it....AND virtually all my homework for the course....
> 
> I have about $10,000 of Financial Aid riding on completely this project
> and impressing my instructor significantly....soooo please hurry any reply
> to the problem I am going to explain...here goes:
> 
> I added additional memory of 32MB RAM and a 2nd hard drive ...a Maxtor 20
> Gig...5400 rpm...EIDE...all successfully partitioned and formatted...I
> also believe I have solved the problem with the drive letters changing the
> position of the CD-ROM...from D:\ to H:\....so now I have my original hard
> drive C:\
> 
> which is running Windows 98 SE  and a newly partioned drive...D, E, F,
> G....all slightly more than 4 G in size...I have the 2 CD set of REDHAT
> 7.0 which I received from the company reps and Comdex Fall 2000, when I
> was there...I put it in my CD-Rom drive and copied files from it onto
> partition D....

I'm not sure why you copied the files onto the second drive.  You say you
can't boot from the CDROM.  Are you saying you can't boot ANY CDROM or only
that you can't boot the Linux install CD?  If you can't boot ANY CD, you
should check your BIOS settings to see if you've enabled booting from CD.
If you just can't boot from the Linux CD, maybe there's something wrong
with your CD.  Can you borrow a 7.0 CD set from somebody else?

If you can't solve the booting from CD problem, you should make a boot
floppy according to the instructions in the installation manual:
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http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS
---

You didn't say how you partitioned the second disk.  If you did it with
DOS/Windows, you should **DELETE** the partitions that you want to use for
Linux --- or actually -- delete *ALL* the partitions on that drive,
assuming they're empty (or at least delete enough to make room for Linux
partitions). 

You can then create the proper Linux partitions as part of the RedHat
install procedure.  Normally you would make a small boot partition (32M), a
swap partition that's at least 2x your memory size (make it a nice even
number like 256Meg for your 96Meg RAM), and whatever other partitions you
want.  Probably easier to make just one more for now to keep things simple.
So you'll have a total of 3 partitions for Linux.

If you have access to another computer while you're doing this and you
don't have the printed RedHat manuals, you should pull up the Installation
Guide at:
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/install-guide/

Which should lead you through the process.

Make sure you make a boot floppy when it offers to do so.  This is
different from the floppy you made to boot the CDROM.  It's useful in
case you do anything wrong when LILO is set up.

If you install LILO on the master-boot-record, the installer should
set up a menu to boot either Windoze or Linux.

> As it does not seem to boot from the CD....where do I go from here to
> install????   Am I missing a step somewhere...seemed like this should be
> straightforward...I have installed REDHAT 7.0 several times on lab
> computers at college...and really looked forward to actually being able to
> have the time to LEARN more having it on my machine at home...but ????   I
> am clueless as to what it not clear of how to install...
> 
> Do I install from a floppy???  Have not made one yet...or from DOS or ????
>   My PC is only two years old...it is a Pentium II  350 now with 96 MB
> RAM...

A PC of that age SHOULD know how to boot from CD, unless something's broken
or you didn't enable boot from CD in the BIOS.

> I was hoping to create a Multibooting machine...but for the sake of
> time...will have to settle for a dual booting...perhaps when I 'get' what
> I am supposed to do correctly....I will be able to add one or more "Linux
> Flavors" in order to experiment, etc.

You didn't say whether you wanted to do custom install, workstation install
or server install.  If you do "workstation", Apache and an assortment of
other stuff will need to be installed manually.  You can do "custom"
and select "everything", which will take a bit over 2G, so if you were to
choose that route, you might want to make the partition a bit bigger.
 
> PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!!!
> 
> Shoshanna
> 




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