Making An Installation Boot Cd-Rom; Making An Installation Boot Diskette - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR X86-ITANIUMTM-AMD64 AND INTEL EXTENDED MEMORY 64 TECHNOLO Installation Manual

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The PCMCIA device driver diskette image file,
directory on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1. Refer to Section 2.5.3 Making an In-
stallation Boot Diskette or Appendix E Driver Media, for more information on making a
diskette.
Note
USB Diskette Drive — You can also boot the installation program using a boot diskette in a USB
diskette drive (if your system supports booting from a USB diskette drive).

2.5.2. Making an Installation Boot CD-ROM

(not available for Itanium systems) is used for booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux in-
isolinux
stallation CD. To create your own CD-ROM to boot the installation program, use the following in-
structions:
Copy the
isolinux/
(referred to here as
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cp -r
path-to-cd
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Change directories to the
cd
path-to-workspace
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Make sure the files you have copied have appropriate permissions:
chmod u+w isolinux/*
Finally, issue the following command to create the ISO image file:
mkisofs -o file.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T isolinux/
Note
The above command was split into two lines for printing purposes only. When you execute this com-
mand, be sure to type it as a single command, all on the same line.
Burn the resulting ISO image (named
ROM as you normally would.

2.5.3. Making an Installation Boot Diskette

(not available for Itanium systems) is used for booting the Red Hat Enterprise Linux in-
isolinux
stallation CD. If you have problems booting from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD, you can write
the
images/bootdisk.img
directory from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1 into a temporary directory
path-to-workspace
/isolinux/ path-to-workspace
¨
path-to-workspace
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file.iso
image to a diskette.
Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started
pcmciadd.img
) using the following command:
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directory you have created:
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and located in
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, is located in the
path-to-workspace
images/
) to a CD-
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