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[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:41 -0500, Dominick Petracca wrote:
> Hi, I'm just trying to practice with various redhat installs.
> 
> I have the RHEL 4 CD's. 
> 
> I copied the CD images to my harddrive and wanted to try a hard drive
> install instead of using the CDs. 
> 
> To do this, I think I need a boot cd or boot floppy correct? 
> 
> Problem is my floppy doesn't work and my cdrom  is not a burner.
> 
> Is there anyway I can download the file .iso so I can burn it on my PC
> and then use that to boot the redhat installer, which then I'm
> assuming will let me select install from harddrive? 
> 
> I tried booting to the install CD #1 but that goes right into
> installing from the CDs and doesn't allow me to choose install from
> harddrive as I saw in documentation 
>  
> Am I misunderstanding something?  Let me know if I have this right: 
>  
> to install from a harddrive, I have to have the CD images copied to my
> hard drive which I have.
> Then I need a boot cdrom or floppy and I can't use the actual install
> CD #1 instead.  

No, you can boot off the first CD to do a disk install, but you must
have all the ISOs in a single directory and use the "askmethod"
parameter on the boot command line from the installer:

	boot: linux askmethod

The alternative method is copy the boot image from the first CD to a
flash disk and boot that.

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