I currently have RedHat 7.0 installed on my system and I wanted to upgrade to 7.3. 7.0 came with a bootdisk to get started, but 7.3 didn't. My computer doesn't recognize the cdrom, so I have to create a boot disk. I followed the instructions and put the boot.img on a disk and loaded it, and it said I needed to have initrd.img as well. I put that on a subsquent disk, and when it said to install the disk with initrd.img, I did and nothing ever happened. Can someone tell me what exactly needs to go on this boot disk?

taken off their website at www.redhat.com

Using DOS or Windows, use the rawrite command in the /dosutils directory on the CD-ROM. Documentation on using rawrite in this way is available in /dosutils/rawrite3.doc.

To make floppies under DOS, Win95, or NT, first boot into DOS and change to the CD-ROM directory (for example, D.

Enter the dosutils directory and run rawrite.

cd \dosutils
rawrite.exe


When prompted for a disk for the boot image, enter \path\to\boot.img.

Then run rawrite again and, when prompted, enter \path\to\supp.img.

The .img files are boot images and can be found in the images directory on the first Red Hat Linux installation CD-ROM.

I was using Redhat 7.0. I had followed the instructions as the manual had indicate, by creating the boot disk with the boot.img from the cd. There must have been something wrong with that file. I downloaded another one from their site, and everything worked fine. Thanks for your help.