i have an ibm intellistation with a scsi hard drive with a standard floppy and cdrom. trying to do a cdrom install of redhat 8.0. i can't boot from the cdrom. can someone point me to a how-to for installing from a boot with a scsi hard drive (or tell me if its really simple)?

i've tried passing the boot argument

linux hdc=cdrom

but this floppy was made as a boot disk for my firewall and the boot image it looks for is on hdb1 (that's correct for my firewall but not this install).

first make a boot disk using a working linux system,

1. insert a formated floppy into your linux box
2. open a terminal as root and mount the cdrom from which you want to install by typing:
mount /mnt/cdrom

3. type:
cd /mnt/cdrom/images

4. type:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

5. umount /mnt/cdrom (NOT UNmount)

6. insert the floppy and cdrom in your target box

7. boot the target box and at the prompt type:

linux hdX=cdrom (where x = the letter representing your cdrom; hdc=cdrom is probably correct; if hdc is wrong, the system will try to boot; watch closely so that you can catch the error messages which will identify the correct letter for your cdrom)

more questions? need to format your floppy with a windows box? see:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...all-cdrom.html
and
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...l-cd-inst.html

I have checked the boot order in your system's BIOS? Set CD first, floppy, then hard drive and the computer should boot from the RedHat installation CD without your doing anything else.