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Old 04-23-2004, 04:15 PM   #1
pashiewashie
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Exclamation Boot cd or disk creation in XP


i have downloaded red hat 9 and now i need a boot cd or disk. now i downloaded disc 1 to 3 of shrike-SRPMS-disc1.iso and i dont know if i just burn it to a cd and make a boot disk and it works.


i really need your help on making a boot cd preferbally or disk without the technical stuff. Also if you could tell me how to in Windows Xp as that is my primary OS and i want to use redhat.


Please help.
 
Old 04-23-2004, 04:19 PM   #2
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You should be able to just burn the iso as an image and then boot with the disk in the cd drive, and the insstaller should just get to work. If you have any problems, let us know.
 
Old 04-23-2004, 04:54 PM   #3
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i have done just burnt it and put it into the cd and boot but, at red hat they insist a boot disk and putting it in as it is does not work.

one more thing could it not booting up be a result of the burning programme used i used record now max.

please help.
 
Old 04-23-2004, 05:42 PM   #4
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Have you checked the drive boot order in your BIOS? That'd be the most likely thing.
 
  


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