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Installation of Fermi Red Hat Linux (in lurid detail) (cont.)

2. If your BIOS supports booting off CD's, modify the boot order of the devices so that the order is "Removable Media," "CDROM," "HDA" (if this is an IDE system).

3. Place the CD in the drive, save the changes and exit the BIOS setup (usually F10 on Intel motherboards).

4. The system will re-boot from the CD and start the installation.

D. The tricky one: FTP

2. From a Windows machine anonymous ftp to linux.fnal.gov (Start -> Run -> ftp).

3. cd to /linux/current/i386/dosutils, change the download type to binary and get rawrite.exe

4. cd ../images and get boot.img and supp.img

5. rawrite.exe should be written directly to your desktop. Double click on it and enter the info that it prompts you for (same as above), but this time you'll have to have 2 floppy disks to create boot and supp.

6. Stick the boot.img in the floppy drive and re-boot the machine. (The three finger salute is sufficient)

7. Proceed with the install until step 5, then select FTP. It will prompt you to insert the supplemental disk and hit return.

8. After the installation has completed and you have rebootted the machine, you will need to run /sbin/setup to configure the timezone and select the services to run. These steps are skipped during the installation.

A. An installation log of all the packages that have been installed on the system is located in /tmp/install.log. This is a simple file with one line per package, and simplistic error recording. A common, though trivial, error that is encountered may be encountered during the installation of bc, "a text based calculator of sorts." This will appear because you didn't choose to format an existing system partition.