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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Ward, Paul wrote:
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Hi there
Just readng your e-mail bout the LUG - I was given a copy of Red Hat 6 - but I am unable to load it - I cannot create any boot disks either - can you help ?
Paul,
In the directory RedHat/images (IIRC) there is boot.img. In DOS:
cd dosutils rawrite.exe When prompted, for a disk, for the boot image enter: .\images\boot.img
Under *ix:
dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=72k
That's you boot image taken care of. Information curtesy RedHat 5.1 installation manual.
FWIW, my recent mboard (Award BIOS) won't boot the cd either, even though it recognises their is one at boot time.
I am currently still in the process of working through the changes in RH6 from 5.2. Some of the stuff they've done is quite amazingly odd and has caused a large number of frustrating hours in #linuxhelp, and I'm not through with it yet.
I'll give you a tip: when you compile your own kernel, rm /boot/System.map - you'll get errors on reboot about modules having the wrong kernel version number otherwise, also cp the asm headers from the linux kernel source into /usr/include/asm/ (rm'ing the symlink first) else virtually nothing compiles.
Gimp-1.1.5 still doesn't compile here, claiming libgimp/libgimp.h is non-existant (damn well does exist).
Overall, progress is slow. At least I backed everything up to my windows HD.
James Green
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