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Old 06-06-2001, 02:35 AM   #1
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I have installed red hat 7.0 successfully but can't get it to boot from floppy. help!
 
Old 06-06-2001, 03:41 AM   #2
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Theres sposed to be a dos dir on the cd, its got rawrite.exe. with this u can write the boot.img to a floppy.
Else boot with the cd into linux, I think the command was "linux rescue", and run the command "mkbootdisk", that will write ure current kernel to a bootfloppy.
 
  


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