hi there....

i am a comparitve newbie to the Linux community...
i had a dual boot system with Red Hat 7.0 and Windows ME loaded...

now, the problem is that my cd-rom has konked out and co-incidentally my system has also crashed...

now i know how to format my hard disk and install windows but i am all at sea with the installation of linux...how am i gonna do it without my cd-rom....

i was thinking that if i could copy the red hat linux installation cd's to my hard disk from a friend's place, then can i install it back at my home????

if this can be done, how do i go about doing it????

i would be very grateful to anybody who can help me out from this predicament......

You can always dump the images to the hard drive and then use a floppy for installation. The floppy image for this is in the cd itself, in the directory called images. Read the README in the same directory for more details.
--Sarin

Just copy the iso images to your hard drive. Create a bootdisk to start the installation. When it asks what type of installation you want to do, just choose from the harddrive and tell it where the iso images are stored.