Preparation before Linux system installation

Before you start installing Linux, you must do the following:

1. Back up all important data on your hard drive! First, it is recommended that you back up important data on your hard drive to a floppy/disc /on the tape to avoid unnecessary losses, causing unnecessary losses to you.

2. If you use a hard disk, network installation, or bios does not support CD boot, you must prepare one or two floppy disks.

The required img file can be found in the /images/directory of the redhat installation CD. The required img file (/images/boot.img, bootnet.img)

Under dos:

Copy /dosutils/rawrite.exe from the CD to the dos system and prepare a floppy disk formatted with just dos.

"C:

awrite ***.img"

Production Method 2, under unix(linux):

Prepare a piece Dos formatted floppy disk, do not mount the system.

"dd if=***.img of=/dev/fd0"

3. Preparing Linux Partitions

Linux has its own file system (Linuxext2), So, you should have your own special partition type when you install linux. This means you can't install Linux on an existing DOS or Windows 98 partition. So you have to adjust the partition on the hard disk and leave enough and unallocated disk space on the hard disk to install Linux. To achieve this, you can do the following:

A, backup the data on the hard disk, partition the hard disk through the fdisk under dos (this method is generally not recommended, unless you use a new hard disk. Or all the data on the hard disk in the north, otherwise all the data Will be lost)

B, first move the data of the last partition to the first few partitions under widows to make it empty (for important data, please backup, in case of any eventuality). If you know about Disk Druid, the partitioning software under Linux, you can install it directly. If you are a newbie, I suggest you go to the dos version of Patition magic, a very professional and powerful partition editing software that you can use to repartition your hard disk partition. But now you just need to convert the format of the space you just sorted into the format of linux et2 under dos, so you can follow the default when you install linux.

4. Collect all the hardware information of your machine. These hardwares probably include the following motherboards (the main chip model on the motherboard), the sound card graphics card, the mouse and keyboard network card, etc. These information can generally be in windows. turn up. Of course, there is a manual for your machine, so don't forget this.