Red Hat, hard disk, no CD, install problems

[xwb]

I'm trying to install RedHat on my aging laptop which has no CD. I can't do an NFS install as I can't find a Linux driver for the network card that I am using. No worry - I can transfer the files across using mswgcn (a microsoft network thing that works on DOS).

I can go all the way through the installation process until it comes to the question Where are the Redhat files. I type /dev/hda5 which is the DOS partition that holds the files and it says it cannot find the files and doesn't go any further.

I recently read somewhere that I need to transfer all the files as an ISO image but as usual, none of the books/articles tell you how to do this. They probably all assume that you have a CD and have never gone down the hard disk route. Anyway the big question is

How do I transfer files from the CD to a DOS/Windows PC as an ISO image?

My guess is that once that is done, it will install seamlessley like it has done on all my other machines with CDs.

 

[zeland]

The CD images that you download from RedHat, the .iso files. Those are the ones. Download them and copy it over to your notebook.


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[xwb]

So I can't use the CD as it stands, I have to do a download from RedHat. Bit of a bugger that. Nevermind.

 

[pansophic]

If you saved the images that you downloaded, you could use those.

If not, you may should be able to recreate them on the machine that you downloaded from the Internet in the first place. Your CD burning software should be able to create an ISO image, and then you can transfer that in the same way that you did the all of the individual files.

Otherwise you can use a Linux boot disk on a machine with a CDROM and use dd to create the ISO image of the CD.


pansophic

 

[xwb]

Thanks for the dd tip. I'll give that a try.

If that works, then I can probably try it on the older machines. Some of the older PCs will not read the CD. The newer ones will but the older ones seem to run forever and nothing happens. Anyway if this works, I can install it on the older PCs.