On Sat, December 2, 2006 5:55 pm, Joshua Penix wrote:
>
> On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:
>
>> Was there a utility on the CD for RH 6 or 7 that let you do things
>> like that?
>
> This is going from memory, but yes the RedHat CDs contained a folder
> with floppy disk images for booting and installing from networks and
> CD-ROM drives.  It also included a DOS/Windows utility called
> 'rawrite' that could make the floppy disk when fed an image file.  So
> you just mounted the RedHat CD in another DOS/Windows machine, made
> the floppy that matched your situation, and then booted the pair in
> your Linux-box-to-be.

Yeah, it's all coming back to me now. But I doubt if that would boot my
Win98 CD for me. Have to look at Jim's suggestion or cobble together a DOS
boot disk with the ATAPI driver, which IIRC is a bitch to get right in M$.

Thanks.

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Lan Barnes

Tcl/Tk Enthusiast        SCM Analyst
Linux Guy                Biodiesel Brewer


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