What now..

[Carpet]

Ok so I've heard about about Linux, I read around, done a bit of research and I like the look of it. I prepared a partion of my hard drive to installed it on allongside windows XP. Ive downloaded the two Iso from the red-hat FTP site and burnt them onto CD.

But what now....

The installation help file on the red hat gets a bit confusing here, mentioned image files and the such like.

Could someone put it in nice simple blunt terms for me.

Thanks

Carpet

[error27]

So after you burn them to a disk then you reboot.

But you change your bios settings to boot from the cdrom instead of the harddrive.

(Your bios is the first screen that shows up when you reboot the computer)

[bdg1983]

The first Redhat CD is bootable (if you burned it correctly), so do as suggested by error27.

[-chaos-]

.. Will your Cd rom drive always be listed in the BIOS, like even on an older computer? Will you always need to install Cd rom drivers first, or will be be sortof like a floppy drive, always there?

[GrassMunk]

for those not in the 'know' is you change the BIOS setting to boot from your CD-rom you can boot most Linux ISO's. Especially Mandrake and RedHat. And they start up with nice gui interfaces and the like.

BUT if your computer doesnt boot from CD
go to www.bootdisks.com (http://www.bootdisks.com) and get the WIN98 boot disk. Reboot with the new diskette in the drive and then once the drivers are loaded go to the Dos tools section on the CD and there should be a bat [dir *.bat] that you can run that will start the install process

[Lindy]

Originally posted by GrassMunk:
BUT if your computer doesnt boot from CD
go to www.bootdisks.com (http://www.bootdisks.com) and get the WIN98 boot disk.[/QB]


On the Linux CD there should also be rawrite which when you run it will make an install disk, and atleast on Mandrake 7.0 there is a rawrite for a .txt install and one for a GUI install.