Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - FOR X86-ITANIUMTM-AMD64 AND INTEL EXTENDED MEMORY 64 TECHNOLO, Руководство по установке

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Chapter 2. Steps to Get You Started 7
You may need to create a diskette from an image file ; for example, you may need to use updated
diskette images obtained from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux errata page:
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
An image file contains an exact copy (or image) of a diskette’s contents. Since a diskette contains file
system information in addition to the data contained in files, the contents of the image file are not
usable until they have been written to a diskette.
For x86, AMD64, and Intel® EM64T systems : You need a blank, formatted, high-density (1.44MB),
3.5-inch diskette and access to a computer with a 3.5-inch diskette drive.
For Itanium systems : You need an LS-120 diskette and an LS-120 diskette drive.
The computer must be able to run either an MS-DOS program or the
dd
utility found on most Linux-
like operating systems.
The
images/
directory on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1 contains boot images. Once you have
selected the proper image (
bootdisk.img
), transfer the image file onto a diskette using one of the
following methods.
2.5.3.1. Using the
rawrite
Utility
To make a diskette using MS-DOS, use the
rawrite
utility included on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
CD #1 in the
dosutils/
directory. First, label a blank, formatted diskette appropriately (such as
Boot Disk
or
Updates Disk
). Insert it into the diskette drive. Then, use the following com-
mands (assuming your CD-ROM is drive
D:
):
C:\
d:
D:\
cd \dosutils
D:\dosutils
rawrite
Enter disk image source file name:
..\images\bootdisk.img
Enter target diskette drive:
a:
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and
press --ENTER-- :
[Enter]
D:\dosutils
First,
rawrite
asks you for the file name of a diskette image; enter the directory and name of the
image to write (for example,
..\images\bootdisk.img
). Then
rawrite
asks for a diskette drive
to write the image to; enter
a:
. Finally,
rawrite
asks for confirmation that a formatted diskette is
in the drive you have selected. After pressing [Enter] to confirm,
rawrite
copies the image file onto
the diskette. To make another diskette, label that diskette, and run
rawrite
again, specifying the
appropriate image file.
Note
The
rawrite
utility only accepts 8.3-type file names, such as
filename.img
3 . If you
download an update image from http://www.redhat.com/ named something similar to
update-anaconda-03292002.img
, you must rename it as
updates.img
before you run
rawrite
.
3. The 8.3-type file name originates from the naming convention of eight characters, a period, and
three characters for a file name extension. This naming convention supports file names between 1 and
8 characters, which cannot have spaces, and may not contain
? or _ characters at the start of the
name.