For many Linux enthusiasts, you may have encountered such a problem, in the installation of the system when there is no installation disk, and although the hard disk has a ready-made download from the Internet on the ISO image file is not a burner, unable to pass the disc after the installation. Today, I take Red Hat Linux9.0 as an example to do a Red Hat Linux 9.0 installation of the ISO image file on the hard disk. First you can download Red Hat from Red Hat Linux's official download site (ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/) or other FTP sites Linux9.0 's three installation image files, named Shrike-i386-disc1, SHRIKE-I386-DISC2, and SHRIKE-I386-DISC3, respectively. Open a mirrored file named Shrike-i386-disc1 with Winiso (downloadable from http://www.winiso.com/download.htm) to see the directory structure as shown in the figure.
The directory named Dosutils is released to the root of a logical disk on the hard disk, which facilitates the following operations in DOS. Also, the folder named Images is released to the same directory. Then choose to restart the computer in Windows 98 and switch to MS-DOS or reboot with a system disk to enter the DOS environment. Find the directory where you just released the file, go to Dosutils, and see an executable named Rawrite that prompts you after execution. You are prompted to put a blank floppy disk, which is the boot disk for the Linux system installation. The system will then ask you to type the location and name of the. img file. Here we need to note that there are four images in our release directory named Bootdisk.img, drvblock.img, Drvnet.img, Pcmciadd.img's img file, where bootdisk.img files are the image files that are responsible for system booting when we install Linux from a CD or a hard disk. In the other three files, drvblock.img is the image file that is responsible for system boot, bootnet.img is a boot image file that is installed using network mode, such as NFS, PCMCIADD.IMG is the installation boot image file for the user who uses the PCMCIA card to support the notebook computer. After you type the location of the Bootdisk.img file, the system completes a boot disk for the installation. Then use this floppy disk to boot the system, if you do not select the boot device as floppy in the BIOS, please modify the BIOS settings and reboot the machine. After the machine starts, it will automatically enter the familiar Linux installation screen, then follow the on-screen instructions. It should be noted that one step in the installation process will require us to choose the way we install and the location of the mirrored files, which are local CDROM, Hard Drive, NFS images, FTP, and HTTP in turn. We just need to select the second item hard drive and enter the location where the ISO image file is stored on the hard disk. After the installation process and we use the CD to install the same steps, but save our halfway to the trouble, OK now you can brew a cup of fragrant tea, waiting for your red Hat Linux9.0 fresh out of the oven!
