Boot up ? What's Next ?

[keith-f]

I now have all four Downloads of Red Hat Linux 7.2 (about 640Mb each) but they are in .ISO compressed Files. I've put them onto CDs in RAW format. Hope that bit is right, I've raided my junk farm and recovered a 500 K2 etc and a 4 Gb HD an I'd really like to think its serious playtime. But I have some (Well heaps !) of questions niggling me. To start with, The ISO extions are I think compressed files so what would I use to decompress the (distribution files ?). Can I use the MSDOS 32bit FAT on the HD or do I need to reformat with something else? Can I boot with an MSDOS Boot Floppy, install a CDR driver and get cracking that way? or am I going about this in the wrong dirrection alltogether. any help would be really appreciated.

Keith

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by keith-f
I've put them onto CDs in RAW format. Hope that bit is right.

As in only the single iso image file has been copied to cd?

You need to burn the iso's as images so you can see a filesystem (files/directories) on the resulting cd.

Change the bios boot order to cdrom first, insert the installation cd and away you go.

You will need to create and format Linux partitions (ext2/swap) during the installation and cannot use existing Windows filesystems to install on.