How to generate boot and driver disks in RedHatLinux

RedHatLinux provides four programs to help you generate boot disks and driver disks. Two (dd and cat) are applicable to Linux and two (RAWRITE. EXE and RAWWRITEWIN. EXE) are applicable to Microsoft Windows. The Linux Utility is a standard command that can be run on other Linux or Unix computers. The image file MicorosoftWindows utility is placed on the first RedHatLinux installation CD.

RedHat Linux provides four programs to help you generate boot disks and driver disks. Two (dd and cat) are applicable to Linux and two (RAWRITE. EXE and RAWWRITEWIN. EXE) is applicable to Microsoft windows. The Linux Utility is a standard command that can be run on other Linux or Unix computers. The image file Micorosoft Windows Utility is placed on the first RedHat Linux installation CD.

If you are currently running a Linux computer, you can follow these steps to generate boot disks. Remember, one or more driver disks may be required:

1. Find the image file on the command line interface. For example, if you use the following command to load the first Redhat Linux installation disk:

# Mount/mnt/cdrom

The image file is located in the/mnt/cdrom/images directory.

2. Insert a three-inch floppy disk into the floppy disk. Do not use the mount command on the disk.

3. Use the following command to convert the boot backup image bootdisk. img to a series of files on a floppy disk (the/dev/fd0 device is associated with a soft drive on the computer ):

# Dd if =/mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk. img of =/dev/fd0

# Cat/mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk. img>/dev/fd0

4. Repeat these steps for any driver disk that may be required in the directory.

If you want to generate a boot disk from the command line interface in Micorosoft Windows, you can use these steps to generate the disk. Remember, you may need to repeat these steps for one or two Driver disks:

1. Insert the first Redhat Linux disk into the optical drive. If the disk number is different, replace it with the corresponding disk number.

2. Open the MS-DOS prompt ("START" -- "run", enter "cmd" and press enter to open)

3. Enter F: In the command line and press Enter.

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4. Start the RAWRITE. EXE utility and run the following command. When prompted, insert a three-inch floppy disk into the floppy drive:

F: \>/DOSOTILS/RAWRITE. EXE

Enter disk image source file name:/IMAGES/BOOKDISK. IMG

Enter target diskette drive::

Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and pree-ENTER -:

5. Repeat these steps for other disk images that may be required in the images directory.