The boot diskette delivered in the boxed version of Red Hat Linux 
professional would not boot the system.  I had purchased all new 
components to build the system, Intel d815eeaal mother board, PIII 800EB, 
Maxtor 45 GByte drive, floppy, adaptec scsi card, plextor external cd-
r/w.  I forunately had a win 98 system running and was able to create a 
boot floppy using the instructions below from the FAQ (nice job on the 
FAQ).  I would recommend putting this procedure up front in the 
installation manual.  It would have saved me considerable time.  
Incidently, I didn't boot DOS, I opened a dos window and ran rawrite from 
with in the dos window while the other windows apps continued to run.  I 
had no problem.  I was incredibly releived when the system did boot, and 
it interrogated the hardware properly installing the necessary drives.

Thanks,

Pat

4.12 Creating an installation boot disk 
Question: 

How do I create an installation boot disk? 

Answer: 

To create the boot disk with the new images, you can either use the dd 
command under UNIX/Linux: 


                dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
        

Or you can use the rawrite command in the /dosutils directory on the CD-
ROM. There is documentation on using rawrite in /dosutils/rawrite3.doc. 

To make floppies under DOS, Win95, or NT: 

Boot DOS and change to the CD-ROM directory. 

Enter the dosutils directory and run rawrite. 
                cd \dosutils
                rawrite.exe
        

When prompted for a disk for the boot image enter: 
                \path\to\boot.img
        

Then run rawrite again and when prompted enter: 
                \path\to\supp.img
        

The .img files are boot images and can be found in your images directory 
on the Red Hat Linux CD #1.