8. Installing from the CD
When installing from the new CD, you may first need to create a bootable
installation diskette. IMPORTANT: use a NEW, freshly MS-DOS
formatted diskette!. Using an old, worn-out, faulty diskette
can result in strange problems during the installation! On a Linux system,
you can create the diskette using the dd command:
$ dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
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On a system running DOS or Windows-9x, you need to use the
rawrite.exe program, which is found on the CD
in the dosutils directory. On
a machine with Windows-9x/Me/NT/2k, you can use the
rawritewin.exe located in the
dosutils/rawritewin directory.
Shut down the machine you want to install on (or do a system upgrade),
insert the boot diskette and your freshly burned CD, and let the machine
boot from the diskette. For more information on the installation process,
see the documents and the
Installation-HOWTO
or the
Bootdisk-HOWTO.
8.1. Booting from a bootable CD
Most modern machines are able to boot directly from a CD, provided it is
made bootable with the procedure outlined in section Creating the CD iso image.
Often, however, you need to change the setting of the BIOS to make the CD
drive bootable. See the documentation for your mother board to see how
it's done.
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