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Hi, folks.

I was thinking about burning RedHat 5.1 to a CD.  My CD burning
software (at the office) only burns Joliet extension CD's.

Does anyone know if the RedHat 5.1 install can be run from a Joliet
CD?  I'd like to find out before I waste a CD-R and make myself
another beverage coaster.

(FWIW, when doing the install from an IDE drive I *did* discover that
RedHat 5.1 cannot be installed from a FAT32 partition, only a FAT16
partition.)

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Quote:> Hi, folks.

> I was thinking about burning RedHat 5.1 to a CD.  My CD burning
> software (at the office) only burns Joliet extension CD's.

> Does anyone know if the RedHat 5.1 install can be run from a Joliet
> CD?  I'd like to find out before I waste a CD-R and make myself
> another beverage coaster.

Yes, you can do this.  I *STRONGLY* recommend that you take a look at my
web page on the topic, though:

http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith/rhjol.html

There are a number of potential pitfalls lurking for the unwary, and it's
easy to burn a useless CD this way.

Quote:> (FWIW, when doing the install from an IDE drive I *did* discover that
> RedHat 5.1 cannot be installed from a FAT32 partition, only a FAT16
> partition.)

Actually, Red Hat 5.1 **CAN** be installed from FAT-32 -- you just need to
change the partition type from FAT-32 to FAT-16 during the installation
(in Linux's fdisk), or the install program won't give you the option of
mounting the FAT-32 partition.

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Rod Smith

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