What Next

Graham Cossey graham at cossey.plus.com
Thu Oct 7 15:18:03 UTC 2004


[snip]
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 11:02, Don Cavaiani wrote:
> > I have downloaded the 4 large CD images to my PC hard drive
> (XP).  I also
> > have a copy of UltraISO which is able to display the actual
> files under the
> > CD Image files.  I know I need to create some kind of a Boot CD
> or Floppy,
> > but I have not found a clear explanation yet.  I expect that if
> I can boot
> > into Linux, then I will need to use "parted" to create a small FAT32
> > partition, and the Linux partition ........and then load the
> entire Linux
> > O/S ???
>
> You need to burn the 4 CDs to media.  The first one will be bootable.
> Once you boot using the first CD it will walk you through the install
> process.
[snip]

It seems often the case, as it was for me, that you also need to burn a 5th
CD using an iso image within the first CDs ISO image to get the initial
bootable CD. (I think it was /images/boot.iso)

Graham





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