Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Creating Boot Disks

Before you make the startup and supplemental disks, label the disks. The process for making the two disks differs in one way: When the program asks for the filename, you enter boot.img for the startup disk and supp.img for the supplemental disk. To create the floppy disks under MS-DOS, you need to use the following commands. This assumes your CD-ROM is drive D:

						d:
						cd \images
						\dosutils\rawrite.exe
					

rawrite asks for the filename of the disk image. Enter boot.img. Insert a floppy disk into drive A. You are asked for a disk to write to. Enter a:<return> and label the disk Red Hat boot disk. Run rawrite again, enter supp.img, insert another disk, and type a:. Label this disk Red Hat supplemental disk. You will also have to create ...