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Re: FW: Redhat 5.2 and installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Thu Nov 5 17:18:02 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 14:16:12 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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"Noronha, Santosh" wrote:
>
> When doing a hard-drive install, I download
>
> 1. \RedHat\base
> 2. \RedHat\RPMS
> 3. \images and
> 4. \dosutils
>
> Using the dosutil rawrite I copy the images to floppy disks, and then boot up
> with those disks for the rest of the install.
> There is no need to download \RedHat\Instimage
> Also when downloading the rpms, you can save yourself some time if you
> download only the relevant XFree86 driver and Howto rpms :-)
>
> (I download to a win95 partition and install from there).
You don't even need to make the floppies, just boot from the hardrive
(dropping to dos, from win95, first of course).
J
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