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. -- Lan Barnes Tcl/Tk Enthusiast SCM Analyst Linux Guy Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
