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Appendix A. Upgrading Your Current System

Figure A 8. Installing Packages

A.8. Boot Diskette Creation

To create a boot diskette, insert a blank, formatted diskette into your diskette drive (see Figure A 9)

and click Next.

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

able to boot properly using GRUB, LILO, or a third party boot loader, a boot diskette would enable

you to properly boot your Red Hat Linux system.

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

clearly. Note that if you would like to create a boot diskette 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 diskette, make sure to select the appropriate option before you

click Next.

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

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

kernel).