Art Wildman (wildman@mediaone.net)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 03:08:13 -0400
Confusing... This is wonderful explanation on how to create RH6.0 install disks;
however, these install disks do not recognize the parport backpack cdrom because
they do not contain the kernel modules needed. So it would not be possible to
continue an install from the distribution CD, which the original poster was
looking for IMO. The 5.2 install image disk Lee found was created by Grant for
this purpose. -see http://www.torque.net/parport/rhs.html According to Grant in
a previous post about RH 6.0 images backpack & support for parport boot/install
disk... "Someone at RedHat is working on it now. Please stay tuned to the
mailing list for an announcement." It may be possible to install from a DOS boot
disk using the DOS backpack cdrom driver. Stay tuned for another post.
-- Art Wildman - wildman@mediaone.net "Share what you know. Learn what you dont." http://www.deja.com MottoMoe Aitel wrote: > > Les > > I did it from DOS. My floppy drive is a:, my cdrom drive is q: > the lines below are for these dos addresses. Change to fit your > system. > > On my RH 6.0 CDROM there is a directory \dosutils wherein is a > file rawrite.exe and another directory \images with boot.img > and rescue.img > > I made a boot disk with the dos command > > q:\dosutils\rawrite -f q:\images\boot.img -d a > > and a rescue disk with > > q:\dosutils\rawrite -f q:\images\rescue.img -d a > > In each case, rawrite politely asks you to insert a floppy into a: > > Note that the floppy is in "a sort of" linux format, not readable > in dos. Boot on the boot.img floppy with the RH 6.0 cdrom in > your cdrom drive. > > I understand that you also can do it from linux with the dd command, > but I have not done that myself. > > Ciao > > Moe > -------------------------- > Lee Kinkade wrote: > > > > I am trying to install redhat 6.0. I have a microsolutions backpack > > parallel port cdrom drive. I have the redhat 6.0 CDs. I want to install > > redhat from this drive. I found the disk image for doing this for redhat > > 5.2, but don't see one for 6.0. I would appreciate any assistance anyone > > could give me getting started with this. > > > > Lee Kinkade > > Network Specialist > > Phone: (847) 827-9494 > > Schawk Inc. > > Fax: (847) 827-8682 > > > > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to: linux-parport-request@torque.net -- > > -- with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. -- > > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to: linux-parport-request@torque.net -- > -- with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. --
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