[sponsor]

I recently downloaded shrike-i386-***.iso (all three disks) and they are peacefuly resting in my additional hard drive. In the partition B. (two equal size FAT32 partitions - partion A and partion B)
my question is,
how do I install linux, from partition B to partition A ?.

note that I am new to linux and partions are microsoft windows based.

[codejockey]

Check out www.linuxiso.org and click on the links to the left under "Help with iso images". There's a wealth of information there.

Hope this helps.

[sponsor]

tried creating a bootdisk, but when I type cd \dosutils
get the message that directory not valid....

[Whiteskin]

From linux?

[Squashman]

You need to burn the ISO's to a Cd first. When you are finished burning the ISO, the cd will be bootable.

[sponsor]

Originally posted by Whiteskin:
From linux?

sory for the confusion
from dos actually.

anyway, it was because of the missing dosutils. So I did downloaded it and it was ok.

How do you create a bootflopy.?

trying to install using a Harddrive(without burning CD).

[Whiteskin]

99% chance that you will end up having to burn the cd. The only way i can think of doing it without burning a cd (And excluding a net install, cause redhat doesnt do those) would be to somehow extract the image to a small dos partition, then point the installler to the cdrom.

And to creat a boot floppy you use rawrite or fdimage.

[sponsor]

Ok, all the downloaded ISOs has defects, when checked with md5 program?
any ideas what is happening ?

[utanja]

Originally posted by sponsor:
Ok, all the downloaded ISOs has defects, when checked with md5 program?
any ideas what is happening ?

from what source did you download the iso files....?

i just upgrade to RH9 (Shrike) and had no problems..

[codejockey]

Having download errors is not at all uncommon (although many folks don't bother to check for them). It only takes one bit (literally!) to make a download less than perfect -- and unfortunately, there's no easy way to determine where the error might be -- and you aren't necessarily doing anything wrong (the internet is inherently unreliable). The only solution I know of is to try downloading again, until you get a perfect copy.

Hope this helps.

[sponsor]

I installed those faulty ones,
well, nothings wrong. up to now!! Perhaps it could be my faulty memory stick that I found couple of days ago.

[Whiteskin]

Good for you. Though, it might be advisable to upgrade all packages, just incase somthing vital has an interesting memory leak or somthing.

[sponsor]

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