Possibly one of the most confusing terms I came across was 'Image'. It seems that the word comes up quite often in Linux. After much deliberation, I discovered that it simply means a 'Copy' (Of sorts). An unusual method for creating a bootdisk is to run a batch file that the authors of the CD-ROM have created for you. This usually lurks in some directory along the lines of install. In the Caldera Build, there is a different option, this is the most frequent type of install, and is located in the following path :

/Col/Launch/Floppy/

Here you will find a program called Rawrite (Either Com or Exe). What this does is take an image file (There are usually about 3 in the directory) and make a carbon copy of that onto your A: drive.

There should be a file along with Rawrite (In whichever Directory you find it in), that'll be called Install.144 or something similar. The important bit here is the 144. That means that it is a file that is intended to be copied onto a 1.44 Meg floppy disk.

Run Rawrite, and it will ask you for the location of the image file. If it is in the same directory as rawrite itself, just enter the filename. If it is not, then give a full path along the lines of :

/location/location/filename

The backslash at the start means that the program will revert to the root directory of whichever drive you are in, and then follow the path to the image file. After the program has sucessfully located the image file, it will ask you for a destination to write the image to. This is obviosuly going to be your A: drive, so put a working disk (No Bad Sectors) into your A: drive and let the program know that it's the A: drive your using. It will then ask you for confirmation. Give the ok to the computer, and within a few minutes you'll have a Linux Boot Floopy!

If the manufacturers of the CD-ROM have created a batch file (Such as Red Hat's EZSTART.BAT), then put a floppy disk in your drive, and run it - simple as that.

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