Hi, I am new to Linux and I am trying to install Red Hat 6.2 on an old Compaq Prolinea 486/66 with 20MB RAM and 2.1 GB hard disk. I am able to boot with a boot disk that I created by using RAWRITE from the dosutils directory on the Red Hat CD ROM. During setup, however the program then asks me to insert my driver disk and press OK to continue. Someone told me that I also need to use the RAWRITE command to make driver disks that are located in the drivers folder on the Red Hat CD. I did this using the paride.img, gdth.img and eata-dma.img files on the CD. The next time the install asked for driver disks I fed the above 3 disks but this just ended in syntax errors, and the setup was terminated. What am I doing wrong. Do I need special Linux drivers because the PC is so old? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

On the RedHat 6.2 CD, there is a /drivers directory in the /images directory with 3 images there. I would try those. Also, even though the PC is older, try to boot off the CDROM. Go into the BIOS and see if you can put the CDROM first in the boot order.

I have this problem too. It's one of those things where you don't see in depth discussion, so you think it MUST be something simple, but WHAT??? Like Doug, when I do a rawrite of paride.img, I get a system error with the results. The disk created is NOT readable by DOS. Is there something special that has to be done when an .img is only about 95K when using rawrite? _Really_, this is one of those things where a simple answer is elusive. I would normally format my DOS disk with NT or OS/2 but per some usenet discussion, I found an old MS-DOS boot disk and formatted from that. I've tried downloading paride.img from Red Hat instead of using the one on the CDROM AND I've tried doing a Linux dd to /dev/fd0, and the dos disk I've formatted /v that shows no errors _always_ becomes unreadable!!! ??????? (And booting off the CDROM isn't an option because it is a pcmcia CDROM and it is my understanding that is what the drivers in paride.img are for.)