[RULE] Red Hat 8 Publishers edition...boot >>NOT

[Harold Tuchel]

Pionex 486 80 meg hardrive Boot device c or a: cdrom not allowed toboot..I Installed it after system purchase Objective dual boot linux 8.0 and win 3.11

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This is all to complicated....got a publishers CD R/H version 8.0 two cdset....Of course the CD drive is non-boot...so I went about making a boot disk from Ver 8.0

boot.img from redhat.

That crashed...it hangs Using slinky or miniconda I have been able to

partition the disk to

ha1,ha2,ha3. Slinky makes it thru to the hardware probes and recognizes

the three

partitions and fd0, and hde which I am assuming is cdrom drive e. I cannot

however access

drive e and also do not have such options to choose from in slinky. Have

tried at boot:linux hde=cdrom

to no avail BTW one version of R/H boot ver 6.2 I think attempts to access

drive e just fine

but cannot find the right directory I suspect to start loading of the

RPMS.

Sams teach yourself linux 8.0 seems to assume R/H 8.0 is going to boot up

your system off

the cdrom and load. (it will on my IBM AMD 400, but I don't want to do that

at this time). I'm

starting to feel like an idiot even though I do DOS a bit and work on CNC

machining

electronics.. BTW I have used several different versions of slinky and

miniconda to no avail.

The drive is to small to download Iso's I think...and I probably wouldn't

know what to do with

them when I got them.

Am I over-reaching to try to revive this Pionex 486 with 3rd party cdrom

and no cdrom boot

bios??? Will it be worth the aggravation?? P.S. without being insulting

or wanting to start a flame,

is this the norm for Red Hat or is linux still for the advanced user????

Thanks harold