I just downloaded the floppy boot (boot.img) as per the instructions in the online installation manual. It is 1.4MB not 2.88. I used rawrite to put it on a floppy and booted my 'puter with the evaluation CD in the CD ROM drive; after some sputtering and searching it said "wrong version of disk image" and shutdown. I guess what this means is that the standard RH-8.0 boot floppy and the RH-8.0 Evaluation CD are not compatible. -Dex
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Beaker (aka Jeff W) > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 21:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Eug-lug]Re: Regarding the RH-8.0 Eval CD Packs... > > >> ...they're worthless if your box doesn't support booting > >> from CDROM. > > > Is it not a full install CD? Did they remove the > > "dosutils" folder they used to put on the disc? It was > > that you could start with a boot floppy (DOS based) > > with CDrom support and change over to the "dosutils" > > folder on the CD and run "loadlin". > > Yeah, the text on the cover says to go to redhat.com to get instructions > for boot floppies, but the boot image on the CDs is actually a 2.88MB > floppy image, which apparently causes all kinds of problems for folks w/ > old hardware - a moot point since RH8.0 needs quite a bit of hardware to > make it useable, even as console-only. Better to use slack or similar > for turning old 486s into routers & firewalls. > ~Beaker _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
