Hi, I am new to Linux and am having a bit of trouble installing Red Hat 6 to my laptop. Red Hat was recommended to me by a friend of mine, as being 'not too hard to learn on.'

I guess information is probably helpful:
The computer is an HP Pavillion N3550 running win98, and I am attempting to get it to dual boot with Red Hat 6. I have so far defragmented my hard drive, and run FIPS to partition it into 3 pieces. At this point I am trying to install Red Hat.

I downloaded and burned the necessary Red Hat cds, and tested them in my primary pc (running win XP) and they loaded right up and asked me to install. I place them into the HP and set the bios to load from CD, but it is to no avail. Win 98 boots right up. In desperation, I tried using a win 98 startup disk to interrupt win 98s load, but it won't let me access the Red Hat CD.

I guess my question centers around finding advice on how to red the red hat cds to load. Perhaps there is a loading utility for floppy, or I should be attempting another method? Maybe Red Hat isn't the way for me to go. I'm not sure, and so any advice would be most appreciated. I thank everyone for their time and kind attention.

- A Child.

Are you sure you don't mean Fedora Core 6?

If you truly mean RH6, I have a few questions for you:
1. Does your friend even use Linux?
2. Where the hell did you get CD's that old?
3. (not a question) Erase or destroy the CD's immediately, if not sooner.

Red Hat 6 was discontinued several several years ago.

If your "friend" actually helped you get old RH6 CD's, then his advice may be different. In that case, I suggest you enlist his help on getting it installed.


If you actually have FC6, I was unable to find a floppy installer for it. Here are some of the areas I checked incase someone else wishes to help out.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download

It is in fact Core 6... my friend was calling it red hat, but the cd says Fedora Core, i don't know if that helps anyone. I am reading through those links you gave though for what it's worth. Gotta start learning somewhere.

And thank you for your help

It took me over an hour to find this. Hopefully it might help others too.
http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

Copy the image to a floppy disk, then boot from the floppy. After that, you should be able to boot from any CD/DVD drive and any partition harddrive.

Thanks a ton!