Topic: ISO, RAW...???-HELP!

[Bruno]

Hello !

I am a newbie..
I'd like to use e-smith. I have a CD-Burner and WinOnCD.
I installed WinZip.
I can extract the downloaded file to an .ISO file.
But, and thats my prob, i dont know how to create a .raw file, which my burnprogram needs to create a bootable CD.
What is rawrite2.exe ?
Is it a prog to create the right image to buzrn a bootable CD?

1000 thanks
Bruno

[Dan]

The e-smith ISO image is not a bootable CD (at least not the 3.x series).  You need to tell WinOnCD to burn the CD from an image file (I don't know how to do that, and their website doesn't seem to have any useful information on that feature).

Rawrite is the program you'd use to create a boot floppy from the floppy disk image that you should also download from here.

[Mike]

Open your burner software and it should give you the option to create an image Cd,
take this option and burn away!!

I got this of the redhat Linux site it should help you make the bootable floppy once
you've made your CD,assuming your using MS Windows.

Making a Diskette Under MS-DOS
To make a diskette under MS-DOS, use the rawrite utility included on the Red Hat Linux CD in the dosutils directory. First, label a blank, formatted 3.5-inch diskette appropriately (eg. Boot Diskette,'' Supplemental Diskette,'' etc). Insert it into the diskette drive. Then, use the following commands (assuming your CD is drive d:):


C:> d:
D:> cd dosutils
D:dosutils> rawrite
Enter disk image source file name: ..imagesoot.img
Enter target diskette drive: a:
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and
press --ENTER-- : [Enter]
D:dosutils>
rawrite first asks you for the filename of a diskette image; enter the directory and name of the image you wish to write (for example, ..imagesoot.img). Then rawrite asks for a diskette drive to write the image to; enter a:. Finally, rawrite asks for confirmation that a formatted diskette is in the drive you've selected. After pressing [Enter] to confirm, rawrite copies the image file onto the diskette. If you need to make another diskette, label another diskette, and run rawrite again, specifying the appropriate image file.

[Damien Curtain]

Dan wrote:

> The e-smith ISO image is not a bootable CD (at least not the
> 3.x series).

Support for kickstarting off cd media is available in loader.c with rh6.2, which I unfortunatley found post implementing it in the current anaconda. I'd assume this will be incorporated sometime in a future release post 4.0.

--
 Damien

[Tim Litwiller]

Ok, so you know that your cd-burning program needs a .raw file rename the .iso file that you downloaded from e-smith to a .raw and burn that.

then still on your windows machine and assuming your cd is drive d: change d: to whatever drive your e-smith cd is in

open that cd to this directory d:dosutils
double click on the rawrite.exe program when asked for the
image source file type in d:imagesoot.img
then enter the drive letter of your 3.5" floppy at the next prompt

next move both your new cd and your new boot floppy to the machine that will be your e-smith server.

In a few minutes after following the propts on the screen you will have an e-smith