Ok I am an experianced pc user but am brand new to linux. I want to install Redhat 7.1 on an older laptop to fool around with it. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite pro 490cdt. Ps 233mhz, 64 mb edo ram, 4 gig hd, cd rom. I have checked and my sound and video and what have you is all supported. I do not have a floppy drive.
I went out and bought a cd and book. Mastering red hat linux 7.1 with the included sybex reh hat 7.1 cd. The book says the cd is bootable. It boots on my desktop. However my laptop does not boot to it. I copy it to a fat 32 partition on my hd, still no boot. My bios boot in cd,floppy (non existant), hd. My laptop boots to a windows xp cd no prob, but no boot with linux.
what i need is a step by step hd install guide. I am running xp pro now and want a dual boot. Xp is on a 1 gig partition (with 400 megs free if you can beleive it!) I have up to 3 gigs for my swap and root partitions. When I put linux on the hd for a hd install i downloaded a muti os bootprogram tor un from xp (till i get lilo goin) and the first thing it asked me to do was make a floppy. The cancel command quits the program. I am ready to get this installed please help!!!
