Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed

By William Ball

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Lead Authors
  • About the Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • I. Red Hat Linux Installation and User Services
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Linux
  • Chapter 2. Installation of Your Red Hat System
    • Preparing for Your Linux Installation
    • Choosing an Installation Method
    • GUI Versus Text-Based Installation
    • Partitioning
    • Creating Boot Disks
    • Starting a Network Install
    • Addressing PCMCIA and External Issues
    • Step-by-Step Installation
    • Post-Installation and Configuration
    • Logging In and Shutting Down
    • Summary
  • Chapter 3. LILO and Other Boot Managers
  • Chapter 4. Configuring the X Window System, Version 11
  • Chapter 5. Window Managers
  • Chapter 6. Connecting to the Internet
  • Chapter 7. IRC, ICQ, and Chat Clients
  • Chapter 8. Using Multimedia and Graphics Clients
  • II. Configuring Services
  • Chapter 9. System Startup and Shutdown
  • Chapter 10. SMTP and Protocols
  • Chapter 11. FTP
  • Chapter 12. Apache Server
  • Chapter 13. Internet News
  • Chapter 14. Domain Name Service and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • Chapter 15. NIS: Network Information Service
  • Chapter 16. NFS: Network Filesystem
  • Chapter 17. Samba
  • III. System Administration and Management
  • Chapter 18. Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices
  • Chapter 19. Printing with Linux
  • Chapter 20. TCP/IP Network Management
  • Chapter 21. Linux System Administration
  • Chapter 22. Backup and Restore
  • Chapter 23. System Security
  • IV. Red Hat Development and Productivity
  • Chapter 24. Linux C/C++ Programming Tools
  • Chapter 25. Shell Scripting
  • Chapter 26. Automating Tasks
  • Chapter 27. Configuring and Building Kernels
  • Chapter 28. Emulators, Tools, and Window Clients
  • V. Appendixes
  • A. The Linux Documentation Project
  • B. Top Linux Commands and Utilities
  • C. The GNU General Public License
  • D. Red Hat Linux RPM Package Listings

Creating Boot Disks

Before you make the startup and supplemental disks, label the disks. The process for making the two disks differs in one way: When the program asks for the filename, you enter boot.img for the startup disk and supp.img for the supplemental disk. To create the floppy disks under MS-DOS, you need to use the following commands. This assumes your CD-ROM is drive D:

   d:

   cd \images

   \dosutils\rawrite.exe

rawrite asks for the filename of the disk image. Enter boot.img. Insert a floppy disk into drive A. You are asked for a disk to write to. Enter a:<return> and label the disk Red Hat boot disk. Run rawrite again, enter supp.img, insert another disk, and type a:. Label this disk Red Hat supplemental disk. You will also have to create the drivers disk. Label the disk Red Hat 7 drivers disk and then insert it into the floppy drive. Run rawrite again and enter drivers.img . You are now ready to install your system using boot disks.

You can use the dd utility to create the disks under Linux or most UNIXes. Mount the first Red Hat Linux CD-ROM; insert a floppy disk in the drive (do not mount it), and change directories ( cd ) to the images directory on the CD-ROM. Use this command to create the startup disk:

   dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

dd converts and copies boot.img to the floppy. if means input file; in our case this is boot.img. of means output file and in our case this is the first floppy device. Finally, bs means byte size and in our case this is 1.44MBs.

To make the supplemental disk, use the following command:

   dd if=supp.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

Installing Without Using a Startup Disk

If you have MS-DOS on your computer, you can install without using a startup disk. The Red Hat installation program can be started by using these commands:

   d:

   cd \dosutils

   autoboot.bat

If your computer can boot from CD-ROM you can also insert the Red Hat 7 CD and reboot your system.

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