Re: How to Use Red Hat Install CD Without a Bootable CD Capability?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Browder wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how I might use the XFS Red Hat
> installation CD without
> bootable CD capability?  The boot.img file is too large to
> fit on a floppy,

The boot.img file should be _exactly_ the same size as your floppy.

Don't try to copy it to the floppy, use:

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

to make the boot floppy.

It's an image of a floppy disk, not a file that should be copied to a
floppy disk.

-Eric

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