Re: Loading Redhat with a New Hard Drive

It's really easy. The first installation cdrom is bootable, so you just boot from
that and follow the instructions that the installer presents.

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Ken Kelley wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I just acquired a computer without a hard drive. I would like to 
> purchase a hard drive and install Redhat on it. My question is, once the 
> hard drive is put into the machine (presumably by simply plugging it in; 
> I've never done this before), how does one install Redhat? It seems to 
> me that at the point where the hard drive has been plugged in, the 
> computer would not "know" it had a CD-ROM or a floppy drive. If that is 
> the case, how does one get the software installed? Before I actually 
> purchased the hard drive, I wanted to see if it would be 
> straight-forward to install Redhat. Any advice on this would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> 
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