> For i386, it is as simple as just copying the right stuff to the right
> place. You will want to make a rockridge bootable CD, with the redhat
> 5.2 boot.img as the boot image.
Oops, I meant El-Torito bootable rockridge CD image.
The only software I'm aware of that can build el-torito CD:s is
mkisofs.
The manpage has information on how to do this. I think it's something
like:
" -b images/boot.img -c boot.catalog ".
-R for rational rock.
Then use any program to write the resulting CD image to the disc.
If you don't have mkisofs, you can boot from floppies.
However, it is important that the disc contains proper long filenames,
that is, it should be an ISO-9660 filesystem with RockRidge
extensions.
Not Microsoft Joliet or Romeo or some other obscure format.
The RedHat install program needs to find certain files in certain
places, and also need to have the right permissions to the programs on
the disc.
If you already have a functioning linux system, try mounting the
resulting CD image through the loopback device, to make sure it has
the intended directory layout and permissions.
# mount -o loop my_rh52_image.iso /mnt/cdrom
# ls -Rl /mnt/cdrom
Then umount /mnt/cdrom, and if everything looked OK, write it to a CD
and enjoy!
Mattias
