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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux

Figure 3 29. Installing Packages

3.30. Boot Disk Creation

To create a boot disk, insert a blank, formatted diskette into your diskette drive (see Figure 3 30) and

click Next.

It is highly recommended that you create a boot disk. If, for some reason, your system were not able

to boot properly using GRUB, LILO, or a third party boot loader, a boot disk would enable you to

properly boot your Red Hat Linux system.

After a short delay, your boot disk will be created; remove it from your diskette drive and label it

clearly. Note that if you would like to create a boot disk after the installation, you will be able to do

so. For more information, please see the

mkbootdisk

man page, by typing

man mkbootdisk

at the

shell prompt.

If you do not want to create a boot disk, make sure to select the appropriate option before you click

Next.

If you boot your system with the boot disk (instead of GRUB or LILO) , make sure you create a new

boot disk whenever you make any changes to your kernel (including the installation of a new kernel).