This sounds like music to my win98's ears, and extra time in my pocket. Just a couple more questions. I see that, to install from hard disk, I must create a bootable floppy. How is this done? If I were to install from cd, would this have to be done and how? I think that takes care of all my questions. Have a good rest of new year's day. At 10:17 AM 1/1/02 -0000, you wrote: >Ok, Here goes with the info on installing Redhat. > >I hope that most of it will be straight forward - just a load of dialog >boxes that ask questions like keyboard, mouse, language, etc. > >I would personally reccommend going for a custom install rather than a >workstation because this way you can choose what to install etc - but your >choice. > >The main hard bit is when you get to partitioning. Select to partition >using disk druid. You'll be shown a list of partitions. Probably you'll >only have one partition called something like hda1. In any case this one >partition will be labelled fat32 because it's your windows partition. When >you've selected your windows partition, tab to edit and press enter. There >are various fields, the only one to fill in is mount point, which should be >the single letter forward slash (/). Then press Ok. You'll be back in the >main disk druid screen, so tab to next and you'll be asked how much space >should be used. Maybe 500mb for root and 64mb for swap or whatever you >consider to be right. In any case, what this does is create two files in >your c: drive called something like redhat.img and rh_swap.img or something. >You will also create a boot disk which you can use to run Linux from the >images on your hard disk. > >Finally, something I should have said at the beginning: this only works on >fat32 partitions so it won't work if you're using nt/2000/xp on a ntfs >partition. > >Hope this helps, Saqib > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jason Symes
