On Friday 12 March 2004 13:15, Donald_Sass@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi.......I am new to Linux (I know very little) and I am trying to > install it to see how it works. Things are not going smoothly and I need > some assistance. > This is what worked for me: 1. I was running RH 9.0 and was happy with the partitions used with it. So, I was aiming at installing FC1 as an "upgrade" rather than a "new install". The relevance of that here is that I could put the FC1 isos in a directory in /mnt and they not be removed or damaged by the installation process. If doing a "new install", this method probably should not be used (though a partition which won't be used by FC1 could be the hd location of the isos during the installation by this method). Check the integrity of the isos with md5sum. When I did I found that my burner (on another machine) had messed up disc3. A re-burn fixed the problem. Better now than during the installation :). 2. I created the directory /mnt/FC1 with mkdir. I moved the three isos into this directory. 3. I put a formatted floppy in the A: drive. My floppy (fd0) was already mounted. Then I mounted the first iso (disc1) to use it to create a boot disk on that floppy. The command to mount the iso is: mount -o loop -t iso9660 yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/FC1 4. Then, to make the boot floppy: dd if=/mnt/FC1/images/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k 5. After the bootdisk.img is copied to the floppy, unmount the iso with: umount /mnt/FC1 6. Reboot with the floppy in the drive, and answer the questions asked. Choose Hard Drive (rather than CDROM or Network) and list the directory /mnt/FC1 when asked for the path to the installation isos. Karl L
