3.4.1 Making a Boot disk

  The first step in Red Hat Linux installation is creating the boot disk The boot disk you use depends on the hardware you have. A variety of boot disk images are available in the images directory along with a README containing more information about the various images which are available.

There are a variety of boot images available, including:

1. cab.img (AlphaPC64, Cabriolet)
2. noname.img (AxpPCI33, Noname, Universal Desktop Box)
3. eb64p.img (EB64+, Aspen Timberlines)
4. eb66.img (EB66)
5. eb66p.img (EB66+)
6. jensen.img (Jensens)
7. avanti.img (AlphaStation 200, 250, 400)
8. xl.img (Alpha XL)
9. xlt.img (Alpha XTL)
10. eb164.img (EB164 based machines)
11. p2000.img (Platform 2000)
12. pc164.img (Alcor based machines)
13. alcor.img (Alcor based machines)
14. mikasa.img (Mikasa based machines)

All of these images should work on machines with either VGA or TGA based graphics boards.     To create a floppy from these images, use rawrite under DOS or Windows (it is available in the dos-utils directory), or dd under UNIX.