Creating a Boot Disk for Redhat 9 Installation

Sometimes your chosen server cannot boot from a CD-ROM drive, if that is the case, then follow these simple instructions for creating a floppy boot disk.

The following steps will provide you with a 3.5" disk for booting your computer to the RedHat Linux setup on your Red Hat CD Disk#1.

1. Insert the Red Hat Linux CD #1 into your CD-Rom drive.

2. Insert a properly formated, blank 3.5" disk into your disk drive.

3. Open a DOS window, and >cd to your CD-Rom drive.

4.>cd to the dosutils directory.

5. At the DOS prompt, type rawrite.

6. At the question about the image file to use, enter D:\images\boot.img, substitue your CD-Rom drive letter for the "D".

7. At the question about the target drive, enter drive letter for floppy, this will probably be your A: drive.

8. Once rawrite has finished transferring the boot.img to your floppy, you can close your DOS window and use the 3.5" disk for booting your intended Linux box.

That's it, you now have a Redhat 9 installation boot floppy...