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Hi every one
It is my first post here and my first experience with linux redhat 8.
I have 8 GB hard drive partitioned as follow
C 3 GB has Windows Xp on FAT 32
D has 2.33 FAT 32 has the unzipped files of redhat 8
E has the rest of the hard drive RAW ( didnt format it yet, planning to install redhat on it).
Am installing from the hard drive
I made the boot disk.
Restarted the computer and got up to the point where I have to enter the path to the ISO image where I get error meassage saying there is no ISO image there.
I tried redhat installation guide but i didnt find it very helpful.
I will appreciate it very much if could some one help me through this installation.
Thank you in advance.
well do you have the iso files? how did you download redhat in the first place? you should normally be downloading a large .iso fril from somewhere like linuxiso.org
Thank you very much for replying to my post.
Here is exactly what it said on redhat web site and I did exactly that and followed the link downloaded three winrared files after the download completed I uncompressed the files saved them to the root of drive D made my disk and restarted.
"You will need to download the ISO images for Intel-compatible machines: psyche-i386-disc1.iso,
psyche-i386-disc2.iso,
and psyche-i386-disc3.iso, in the directory"
I tried so many times and I think the problem is the setup program can not locate or find the partition from my research I found out that I have to mount the partition other wise it wont work, the problem now is how I do that in Windows (I think that is not possible). The other problem is I dont have a CD burner to burn them.
Any ideas on how to mount the partition?
Thanks
Create boot disk from images on some diskettes. Use rawwrite.exe for this (workable from windows/DOS prompt). Boot from this diskettes. This will give you minimal linux environment to start with.
Mount your cdrom: e.g. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
cd /cdrom and install it from there. I did this with SuSE with great success. But then I intall it from ftp ;-)
I have downloaded the 3 .iso disks for RH9 - after a LOT of messing around, I finally got to the point where I tricked the installer into thinking CD1 was mounted - all was fine until I was asked insert CD2! Tried my mount trick - but it maybe missed the CD1 in the process - before you all say it - I am at work at 12:20 pm (evening) - no CD writer installed to burn the CDs - must be a way around this - any ideas? - the installer doesn't let me choose the location - can I make a fake cdrom mnt?
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