<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Installing from the CD</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE=" Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO " HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="The comps file" HREF="comps-file.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Other Linux distributions" HREF="other-distributions.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Burning a RedHat CD HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="comps-file.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="other-distributions.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="INSTALLATION" ></A >8. Installing from the CD</H1 ><P > When installing from the new CD, you may first need to create a bootable installation diskette. <EM >IMPORTANT: use a NEW, freshly MS-DOS formatted diskette!</EM >. Using an old, worn-out, faulty diskette can result in strange problems during the installation! On a Linux system, you can create the diskette using the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >dd</TT > command: </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" > $ dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > On a system running DOS or Windows-9x, you need to use the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >rawrite.exe</TT > program, which is found on the CD in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >dosutils</TT > directory. On a machine with Windows-9x/Me/NT/2k, you can use the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >rawritewin.exe</TT > located in the <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >dosutils/rawritewin</TT > directory. </P ><P > Shut down the machine you want to install on (or do a system upgrade), insert the boot diskette and your freshly burned CD, and let the machine boot from the diskette. For more information on the installation process, see the documents and the <A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Installation-HOWTO</A > or the <A HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Bootdisk-HOWTO</A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN894" ></A >8.1. Booting from a bootable CD</H2 ><P > Most modern machines are able to boot directly from a CD, provided it is made bootable with the procedure outlined in section <A HREF="include-updates.html#ISO-IMAGE-CREATE" >Creating the CD iso image</A >. Often, however, you need to change the setting of the BIOS to make the CD drive bootable. See the documentation for your mother board to see how it's done. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="comps-file.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="other-distributions.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >The comps file</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Other Linux distributions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >