5 Doing a CD or NFS install

To make the disks from DOS the easy way, do the following:

1. First, let's assume your CDROM is drive E:. You need to switch to that drive by typing E:
2. Now, switch to the DOS directory with cd dos
3. Now, run bootroot This program should guide you through making both a boot and root disk for RHCL. If it fails, you'll have to do it the not so easy way.

1. First, let's assume your CDROM is drive E:. You need to switch to that drive by typing E:
2. Now, switch to the images directory with

   cd \images
   

3. Now, run

   \dos\rawrite
   

   This program will ask you what file you want to write. You should say: rootdisk.img It will then ask what drive, to which you say: a:
4. Provided that step went okay, you should have a root disk image. Remove that disk and label it. Now insert another disk.
5. Now you need to make a boot disk. Do a cd 1211 into the boot disk directory. Now look at image.idx using something like edit image.idx You will see something like:

   0000; None; None; IDE/ATAPI or SCSI
   0001; None; None; Mitsumi (not IDE/ATAPI), Sony CDU31A/CDU33A/CDU535
   .
   .
   .
   

   The file is separated by semi-colons into columns. The first section is a boot image number. The second column tells you what kind of SCSI support the kernel contains. The third column tells you what kind of ethernet support the kernel contains. The fourth column tells you what kind of CDROM the kernel supports.

   Find the line that most closely matches your hardware and record the number. Now, exit whatever program you were using to edit that file.

6. Run

   \dos\rawrite
   

   again. Now make your boot disk using: bootXXXX.img as your filename where XXXX is the number you recorded.