.....good one..... can you be a little more of a help rather than a nuisance? people are trying to get things done here.

The first iso image has the bootdisk tools on it

WinRar can read iso''s, you could use it to copy the contents out of the CDs. You need to do this to install from the hd (I did a net install this way). I''m not certain what tools are available to Linux to let it work with .iso files. One would think you''d be able to mount them...

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.....good one..... can you be a little more of a help rather than a nuisance? people are trying to get things done here.

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Go post to a unix newsgroup. There''s sure to be no humor there.

hmm...yeah i was reading up on some command to mount


mount -t loop iso_file.iso /mnt/iso

but /mnt/iso doesn''t exist....hmm...

ok i figured it out, but i get:

[root]# mount -t loop shrike-i386-disc1.iso /root/rh-9/
mount: fs type loop not supported by kernel


?? what''s wrong now

try:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro shrike-i386-disc1.iso /root/rh-9/
should work, ro stands for read only. Just in case you could screw something up with the iso if you mounted it read-write.

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THANKS! that worked.

but now what do i do with ISO???? i still can''t extract it by right clicking on it and clicking extract here. it still says that the archive can''t be loaded. how can i get the boot.img out of the ISO?

If the image is mounted, you can just copy the files you need from the mount directory to another location and unmount the iso when done.

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OMG:

i tried:

# dd if=bootdisk.img of=/[tofloppydisk]

and it just SCREWS UP! it has like 1000000 files on the floppy, each one of them all messed up like the names are
93029 s dj AS kjasoij2 3092u30 aslkdj a!!

JESUS! is bootdisk.img the file i want?

Make sure you when you use dd the of part is NOT the mount directory of the floppy, but rather the DEVICE (usually /dev/fd0). Also, do not have it mounted. So, try this:

dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0