> I do not understand making a boot disk by writing the disk image form > the CD and then booting on that. Are you talking about the bootdisk.iso > file? what do I do with it.
Since your computer isn't booting the CD-ROM drive, he is talking about booting to your floppy drive, and then it will ask you to insert the CD later. The file you are looking for is something like bootdisk.img and it is 1.4MB. Look here for instance: http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/images/ The file can be written to a floppy using a program called rawrite.exe. Look in the dosutils directory for that. Look here for instance: http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/dosutils/ After booting from the floppy disk, Red Hat setup will ask if you want to install from a CD, Hard Drive, network, or whatever. You say CD, and make sure your CD is in. > I am wondering if the problem isn't the disk but the computer. I can > easily boot off of my cd's (RH 9.0 shrike iso's) on my other computer. > It's like my desktop just doesn't want to even try booting from the cd > drive... Is there some way to force it to boot off the cd? Yeah, getting your computer to boot to CD would probably be easier than tring to get the floppy disk thing to work. Just go into the bios and make sure CD comes before hard drive in the boot order. Be careful not to mess anything else up though. :) Phillip Hellewell _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
