Re: Loading Redhat with a New Hard Drive

[Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's really easy. The first installation cdrom is bootable, so you just boot from
that and follow the instructions that the installer presents.

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Ken Kelley wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I just acquired a computer without a hard drive. I would like to 
> purchase a hard drive and install Redhat on it. My question is, once the 
> hard drive is put into the machine (presumably by simply plugging it in; 
> I've never done this before), how does one install Redhat? It seems to 
> me that at the point where the hard drive has been plugged in, the 
> computer would not "know" it had a CD-ROM or a floppy drive. If that is 
> the case, how does one get the software installed? Before I actually 
> purchased the hard drive, I wanted to see if it would be 
> straight-forward to install Redhat. Any advice on this would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> 
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