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>4.1. Creating an Installation Diskette</A
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>The first step in getting Red Hat's distribution of Linux onto a
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system, you need to find a way of starting the installation program. The
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usual method of doing so is to create an installation disk, although if
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you are installing from CD-ROM, and your system's BIOS supports it, you
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should be able to boot directly into the installation program from the
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CD.</P
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>Otherwise, to create an installation diskette, you'll need to copy
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the ``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>boot.img</TT
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>'' (which is simply
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an image of an ext2-formatted Linux boot diskette with an additional
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installation program) onto a floppy diskette. The
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>boot.img</TT
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>'' file can be obtained
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from the <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>/images</TT
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> directory of the Red Hat CD-ROM disk, or
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downloaded via FTP from <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/"
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>ftp://ftp.redhat.com</A
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> in the <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/images"
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TARGET="_top"
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>/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/images</A
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> directory (assuming you are
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installing Linux on an Intel box).</P
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>You can create the boot diskette either from a DOS or Windows
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system, or from an existing Linux or Unix system. For your destination
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diskette, you can use either an unformatted or a pre-formatted (for DOS)
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diskette -- it makes no difference.</P
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>Under DOS: Assuming your CD-ROM is accessible as drive D:, you can
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type:</P
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>d:</B
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>
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<TT
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CLASS="USERINPUT"
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>cd \images</B
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>..\dosutils\rawrite</B
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>For the source file, enter
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>boot.img</TT
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></TT
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>''. For the
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destination file, enter ``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>a:</TT
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>'' (assuming the diskette
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you are created is inserted into the A: drive). The
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>rawrite</TT
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>'' program will then copy the
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>boot.img</TT
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></TT
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>'' file onto
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diskette.</P
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>Under Linux/Unix: Assuming the
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>boot.img</TT
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></TT
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>'' file is located in
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the current directory (you may need to mount the CD-ROM under /mnt/cdrom
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and find the file in /mnt/cdrom/images), you can type:</P
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>dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0</B
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>The ``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>dd</TT
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>'' utility will copy, as
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its input file (<SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"if"</SPAN
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>), the
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>boot.img</TT
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></TT
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>'' file, onto the
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output file (<SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"of"</SPAN
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>) /dev/fd0 (assuming your floppy drive is
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accessible from /dev/fd0).</P
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>Unless your Linux or Unix system allows write permissions to the
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floppy device, you may need to do this command as the superuser. (If you
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know the root password, type ``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>su</TT
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>'' to become the
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superuser, execute the ``<TT
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>dd</TT
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>'' command, and then type
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>exit</TT
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>'' to return to normal user status).</P
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>With either of the above schemes, you should now have a bootable Red
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Hat 6.1 installation diskette that you can use to install your new Red Hat
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Linux system!</P
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