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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:25 pm, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:

> Okay, here's the deal. I went to TLDP to look for info for the
> instructions on how to make a boot disk from the boot.img from the iso
> (after I mounted it, which was way cool, just wish I could have ran the
> installation right then and there) image. I found the file and read the
> readme in the directory and nothing. I searched RedHat's site for
> instructions on what to do with the file, nothing from them except a
> link to download it off their web site. So now I ask, do I just copy
> that file to my floppy disk and reboot, or is there a command that I
> run (the only indication of there being a command came in the
> mini-install howto's, and they never actually went into what that
> command was, unless I just missed it). I'd be very appreciative if
> someone can at the very least point me in the right direction.

On a linux machine:
dd if=/path/to/mounted_iso/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

More details here:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/

There is a section on making boot disks.

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