Re: Trouble with Laptop Install with NO CD-ROM

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Strazzarino, John wrote:
> I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.2 on a laptop with does not have a CD-ROM.
>
> The machine currently is a dual boot with Windows '98 and a 'broken' version
> of Linux.
>
> I copied all of the Red Hat 7.2 folders to c:\w98\Redhat\base

You don't want the folders, you want the ISO images on the hard disk.
The RH installer will mount the ISO image(s) via a loopback device so
they look like CDROMs to the installer.  So, dump the contents of
the c:\w98\Redhat\base directory and download the ".iso" files to
it and try again.

Here's RedHat's manual for it:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-install-disk-image.html

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