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I have installed redhat last night on its own partition, was on a dos before hand, i write over my boot disk 2 days ago and said to myself that i would create another when i got the new partition, i did not set up lilo, as i have win2k advanced server and i also forgot to create a boot disk. On the CD there is a image but it wont fit on a floppy, what do i do to boot into redhat?
Here is how you can create a boot disk under DOS from the Redhat cdrom:
C:\> d:
D:\> cd \dosutils
D:\dosutils> rawrite
Enter disk image source file name: ..\images\boot.img
Enter target diskette drive: a:
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and
press --ENTER-- : Enter
D:\dosutils>
Originally posted by crashanburn Tried that but that brings up the screen for installation, i want to boot into my linux system cause i did not make a boot disk.
was that in windows or linux it brought the screen up to install? we understand you need to boot into linux with a boot disk, if you follow the directions from within dos, it never fails, well for me it hasn't. make sure your not booting to the cdrom upon bootup.
Did as you said through Dos booted from floppy with out cd in drive an it brought up a instll screen, probably done somethin stupid? Thanks for the advice, installed again and made sure i made a boot floppy this time, LOL.
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