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>8. Installing from the CD</H1
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> When installing from the new CD, you may first need to create a bootable
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installation diskette. <EM
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>IMPORTANT: use a NEW, freshly MS-DOS
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formatted diskette!</EM
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>. Using an old, worn-out, faulty diskette
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can result in strange problems during the installation! On a Linux system,
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you can create the diskette using the <TT
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>dd</TT
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> command:
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> $ dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
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> On a system running DOS or Windows-9x, you need to use the
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<TT
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>rawrite.exe</TT
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> program, which is found on the CD
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in the <TT
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>dosutils</TT
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> directory. On
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a machine with Windows-9x/Me/NT/2k, you can use the
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>rawritewin.exe</TT
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> located in the
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>dosutils/rawritewin</TT
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> Shut down the machine you want to install on (or do a system upgrade),
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insert the boot diskette and your freshly burned CD, and let the machine
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boot from the diskette. For more information on the installation process,
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see the documents and the
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>Installation-HOWTO</A
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or the
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>Bootdisk-HOWTO</A
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>8.1. Booting from a bootable CD</H2
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> Most modern machines are able to boot directly from a CD, provided it is
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made bootable with the procedure outlined in section <A
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>Creating the CD iso image</A
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Often, however, you need to change the setting of the BIOS to make the CD
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drive bootable. See the documentation for your mother board to see how
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it's done.
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