Re: Help installing LINUX 7.0

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:46:55 -0600
"Sabu Mathai" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I just tried to install a copy of RedHat Linux 7.0 and have so far
> been unable to run it.  I'm running a laptop with an interchangeable
> CD ROM / floppy drive (i.e. I can only use one at a time).
> 
> Here's what I did...
> 
> I first ran a copy of PartitionMagic and created a partition for
> Linux and then set up Bootmagic to run when I start my PC.
> 
> I installed Linux, being careful to install LILO to the bootsector
> and not to the MBR. 
> 
> However when I try to boot into Linux from BootMagic, I just get a
> black screen.  I realize that I might need to make a boot disk since
> LILO isn't on the MBR.  But, I wasn't able to create the boot disk
> during installation since I had the CDROM plugged in.  How can I
> make a bootdisk if I don't have access to the mkbootdsk command?  Is
> there a boot disk image that I can download from somewhere?
> 
> Also, I do have a 19GB HD and the Linux partition is after the
> Windows 2000 partition.  Could this be a problem?
> 
> 
   You can try an install from the hard drive. It basically involves
copying the RedHat install cds to a directory in Win2000, making a
normal install boot floppy and any supplimental driver floppies, and
telling the install to do it from the hard drive directory rather than
the cd. As you already have made a Linux partition, you can just
proceed.
   Make a directory C:\redhat. Copy both install cds to C:\redhat.
Switch from the cdrom to the floppy drive. In C:\redhat\dosutils, use
rawrite to make your install floppies and any driver floppies you
need. Reboot with the install floppy, and tell the install that you
want to install from the hard drive. When it asks for the partition
where the redhat file are located, tell it that they are in /dev/hda1
and /redhat. Do the install, and make a boot disk.
  Having Win 2000 in the first partition is fine. Linux doesn't care
which partition it lives in, but Windows usually does.
  There isn't any problem putting Lilo in the MBR ( it won't mess up
Windows.) 
  Once you are running, you can free up the Windows drive by deleting
the C:\redhat directory.

                               Good Hacking!

                                       Tom