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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux
Using the CD ROM to boot, type linux rescue at the
boot:
prompt.
By booting your system from an installation boot diskette made from the
boot.img
image. This
method requires that the Red Hat Linux CD ROM #1 be inserted as the rescue image or that the
rescue image be on the hard drive as an ISO image. Once you have booted using this diskette, type
linux rescue at the
boot:
prompt.
By booting from a network diskette made from the
bootnet.img
or PCMCIA boot diskettes made
from
pcmcia.img
. Once you have booted using this diskette, type linux rescue at the
boot:
prompt. You can only do this if your network connection is working. You will need to identify the
network host and transfer type. For an explanation of how to specify this information, see Section
3.7.
For more information, refer to the Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide.
3.20.3. Alternative Boot Loaders
If you do not wish to use a boot loader, you have several alternatives:
Boot diskette
You can use the boot diskette created by the installation program (if you create one).
LOADLIN
You can load Linux from MS DOS. Unfortunately, this requires a copy of the Linux kernel (and
an initial RAM disk, if you have a SCSI adapter) to be available on an MS DOS partition. The
only way to accomplish this is to boot your Red Hat Linux system using some other method (for
example, from a boot diskette) and then copy the kernel to an MS DOS partition. LOADLIN is
available from
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/dualboot/
and associated mirror sites.
SYSLINUX
SYSLINUX is an MS DOS program very similar to LOADLIN. It is also available from
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
and associated mirror sites.
Commercial boot loaders
You can load Linux using commercial boot loaders. For example, System Commander and Parti 
tion Magic are able to boot Linux (but still require GRUB or LILO to be installed in your Linux
root partition).
Note
Boot loaders such as LOADLIN and System Commander are considered to be third party boot load 
ers and are not supported by Red Hat.






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