RE: how to install on a new partition

["Andrew Campagnola" <acamp ram-it com>]

Hi There,

As far as I understand, when you burn a CD from the iso image that CD is NOT
bootable, unless
some special steps are taken. I suggest creating a boot floppy and using
that, then the install files will be found on the CD.

You can create a boot floppy from ms-windows by going into the DOSUTILS
directory on the 1st CD. There's a program called rawrite, and you specify
the boot floppy image from the /images directory. If you downloaded the
DOCUMENTATION iso image, then the install guide is on that CD in html
format.

Andrew Campagnola




-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Evil Devil
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:28 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: how to install on a new partition


Hi,
I checked my CDs as well and the order for BOOTing is CD-ROM, Floppy, etc.
too. Still when I restart the computer with CD-ROM in it, it would just
load the WIN XP.

The CDs in which I copied are of size 650 MB, does that matter, though the
md5sum gave correct results?

Thanks,

Kunal


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Kunal Gandhi wrote:
> > Thanks John!
> > I could change the BIOS settings for my computer to boot from CD-ROM,
> > still it would not do anything and just load up the Windows XP (current
> > OS).
>
> You need to make sure that the CD is tested first, THEN the hard disk.
> This is called "boot order" in many BIOSes.  The ideal order is floppy,
> CD-ROM, hard disk.
> >
> > Do I need to do anything else to the partition I created for Linux
besides
> > just creating it?
>
> Actually, you don't even need to create a partition for Linux, just have
> space on the drive that isn't in a partition ("uncommitted" or "free"
> space).
>
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, John F Schlesinger wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Kunal,
> >>You may have to go to your computer's setup screen to have it boot from
> >>the CD-ROM. When you start the computer (it has to be turned off first,
> >>restart from windows doesn't work) you should see a prompt telling you
> >>how to get to the BIOS Setup (often F1 does the trick). Then you need to
> >>tell the computer to boot off the CD-ROM.
> >>John Schlesinger
> >>SeeBeyond
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> >>[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com] On Behalf Of Kunal Gandhi
> >>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:32 AM
> >>To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> >>Subject: how to install on a new partition
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>	I am trying Linux installation for the first time. Have
> >>successfully downloaded and made 3 CD-ROMs of the images, created Linux
> >>logical partitions (including Swap space) with Partition Magic.
> >>
> >>I don't know what to do next. On booting the computer, it doesn't boot
> >>from the CD-ROM 1 (though it can..) as it says on the manual. .iso files
> >>are not recognized by Windows, they aren't executables I get that. What
> >>do
> >>I do? I would really appreciate any help on this.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Kunal
> >>
> >>
> >>
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