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zubknarf:
I've decided to give it a try so i downloaded the 3 iso images for Red Hat linux. burned them to a cd put  disc 1 in the cd drive re-booted and nothing happens..i switched my boot sequence to boot the cd rom first..i have a Dell 4100 PIII 933 with 256 mb ram. if i look at the contents of the first cd,in windows, it looks like a dos program. in dos it says vahal~1 exe ..if i type that in under dos it says program to big to fit into memory..whats happening did i burn it wrong or what??? I followed the instructions on the red hat page for burning iso images.for cd creator. i also downloade mandrake and the same thing happens..nothing...Help me if you can i'm feeling down..thanks  zubknarf

choasforages:
ok it looks like you burned the cd's right its just your computer that is not co-operating, if your using redhat 7.3 this should work great. ok take the dos boot disk and boot the computer up with it and stick the first redhat cd in it. then go to the dosutils folder, and type in
autoboot.bat
that should work
have fun

slave:
Windows XP practically installs itself, and you can either run the setup program from Windows or you can boot from the CD.

zubknarf:
I've been using windows for at least 5 years and thought i'd try something else just for kicks. If there is a better operating system out there i would like to try it, I've heard alot of good things about Linux so i though i'd give it a whirl...Variety is the spice of life...Think!! zubknarf...anyways i tried to download the boot disk and it says it's to big to put on a floppy disk !!! what's with that???

choasforages:
making the boot disk involves using rawwrite, i don't know how to use it but there should be a .txt file or just plain read me.

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