> Hello Listers,
>  One of our machines experienced a disk crash. The machine came with a
> factory-installed linux Red Hat 6.0 as its only OS.
> We got a brand new replacement disk and the user intends to have Red Hat
> 6.2 as his OS.
>
> How do we prepare the hard disk for linux installation ? Do we use DOS
> fdisk and format and a generic CD driver to start linux installation CD ?
> Can I use a win98 startup diskette from another machine to fdisk and
> format the new drive ?

     No need to use FDISK. Does the machine boot from a CDROM? If so then
simply put the RedHat CDROM in the drive and reboot, the CD is bootable. If
not then you have to use a dos boot disk and make a linux boot floppy,
instructions are in the readme in the root directory of the disk. After that
the Linux install is VERY complete, it goes through partitioning and
everything for you. If you need further instructions please let me know
having installed RH 6.2 a few times myself. TTYL

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