[95506] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Installing 5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Fishwick)
Mon Oct 19 07:46:47 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:20:40 +1100 (EST)
From: Chris Fishwick <rimmer@calvin.nu>
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> Hi, does anybody know why I can't create the bootdisk when I install Red
> Hat 5.1 ????. The screen show the legend "creating bootdisk...." but
> dev/fd0 doesn't work, I mean it has the light on but doesn't write anything
> to the floppy.
Why is it that you are actually creating a bootdisk?? I assume that you
are booting off of your CD-ROM in which case, the only reason you need to
make a boot disk is for rescue purposes, which you can do after the
installation has completed anyway...
I don't know why it is that it will not create the disk, however if you
really want one before you install, then you can create one from a DOS
machine which you can access the CDROM from.. Just use the rawrite program
to write out the relevent image file to a floppy disk...
Also, is the floppy drive light on all the time?? If so, then the cable
is probably plugged in the wrong way around...
Regards
Chris
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