Sidney Lambe wrote:

Answer: Because you are a stinking, lying technocrat who wants Linux
runners to become ignorant appliance operators who are dependent
on you and others like you.

Almost time to invoke Godwin's Law.

I can't think of a way to do a floppy-based or USB-based installation
for RHEL. You could probably bootstrap into RHEL by starting with
another distro that does support floppies, if you have a floppy drive
and lots of floppy disks. Install that distro first, then use the
method David mentions to boot to the RHEL iso.

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

[juvenile trolling deleted]

Nico here is one the technocrats who wants you to remain
ignorant of how Linux works so that you will be dependent
on him and others like him.

So they encourage the use of Windows-clone interfaces like
KDE and tell you, without ever saying it outright, that you
are too stupid to learn how to run Linux from the commandline.

They lie. Take some time to do a little studying and playing
with the commandline and you can break free of these corporate
pawns.

I run the X-Window system and can use any application that anyone
running KDE can, but I don't have KDE or anything like it.

General:

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html

http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2

http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto/slackfiles/books/slackware-basics/html/shell.
html

http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-who-where-and-what
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-man-command
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-directory-manipulation
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-files-manipulation
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/6/bash-history-in-the-making
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/6/bash-use-your-local-bin

Bash Specific:

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1052574.html
kind of odd "shell ninja" but lots of good info:
http://www.slideshare.net/brian_dailey/nyphp-march-2009-presentation
http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/classes/s243/bash.html
http://www.learnaboutlinux.net/blog/41-programming/50-bash-basics-1


Sid

Sidney Lambe wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh, so you have no problems using the KDE libraries then? I find that
surprising especially giving your rant about only using the CLI. Now
you are contradicting yourself.

In alt.os.linux.redhat Allen Kistler <ackist... at (no spam) oohay.moc> wrote:

I can't think of a way to do a floppy-based or USB-based installation
for RHEL.  You could probably bootstrap into RHEL by starting with
another distro that does support floppies, if you have a floppy drive
and lots of floppy disks.  Install that distro first, then use the
method David mentions to boot to the RHEL iso.

RHEL 5 supports the use of the /images/bootdisk.img, copied to a bootable
USB flash drive.  Instructions in the RHEL install guide.

"To boot using a USB pen drive, use the dd command to copy the diskboot.img
image file from the /images/ directory on CD-ROM 1. For example:
dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda
"

Other sources on the web explain how to perform the copy if you don't
already have dd.

d... at (no spam) 01.usenet.us.com wrote:
In alt.os.linux.redhat Allen Kistler <ackist... at (no spam) oohay.moc> wrote:
I can't think of a way to do a floppy-based or USB-based installation
for RHEL.  You could probably bootstrap into RHEL by starting with
another distro that does support floppies, if you have a floppy drive
and lots of floppy disks.  Install that distro first, then use the
method David mentions to boot to the RHEL iso.

RHEL 5 supports the use of the /images/bootdisk.img, copied to a bootable
USB flash drive.  Instructions in the RHEL install guide.

"To boot using a USB pen drive, use the dd command to copy the diskboot..img
image file from the /images/ directory on CD-ROM 1. For example:
dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda"

Other sources on the web explain how to perform the copy if you don't
already have dd.

Makes sense.  I think I remember diskboot.img being for a floppy long,
long ago.  Then it became too big to fit on a floppy.

I also found some fedora-test-list articles that talked about having to
copy the image to the first partition on the USB stick if the machine
didn't support booting to a USB floppy image (varies machine BIOS to
machine BIOS).

The OP had Windows, so he'll have to find a way to write the image to
USB via something in Windows.

In any case, the OP has something else to try now.

In alt.os.linux.redhat Allen Kistler <ackistler at (no spam) oohay.moc> wrote:
I can't think of a way to do a floppy-based or USB-based installation
for RHEL. You could probably bootstrap into RHEL by starting with
another distro that does support floppies, if you have a floppy drive
and lots of floppy disks. Install that distro first, then use the
method David mentions to boot to the RHEL iso.

RHEL 5 supports the use of the /images/bootdisk.img, copied to a bootable
USB flash drive. Instructions in the RHEL install guide.

"To boot using a USB pen drive, use the dd command to copy the diskboot.img
image file from the /images/ directory on CD-ROM 1. For example:
dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda"

Other sources on the web explain how to perform the copy if you don't
already have dd.

dold at (no spam) 01.usenet.us.com wrote:
"To boot using a USB pen drive, use the dd command to copy the
diskboot.img image file from the /images/ directory on CD-ROM 1. For
example: dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda"

The OP had Windows, so he'll have to find a way to write the image to
USB via something in Windows.

Have you actually tried this? I've found booting from pen drives
problematic over the last 6 years or so, and hope it has improved.

So, if we add it all up, then GNU/Linux and Windows are - at least, from
the purely technical point of view; I won't be discussing licensing
etc. - both descendents of UNIX, with GNU/Linux having the most UNIX
DNA and Windows being an offspring of an offspring of an offspring that
had serious genetic flaws. :p

Well, I don't see Windows running natively - as in "on the bare metal" -
on an IBM S/390 yet.  GNU/Linux on the other hand is quite capable
of that, albeit that it's typically far more practical to run it inside
a virtual machine, even if only because of the limitations of the
amount of logical (processor) partitions in the Linux kernel versus
OS/390 (which I think is now called differently - zOS or something of
the likes? - but anyway).

First of all I would like to say that I have not been following the
entire debate into detail because of health issues, and although the
word "troll" has come up a few times in this part of the thread

Shifting pseudonyms is rather a habit of trolls or spammers.

My wife saw me booting Linux in the command line mode today

"Oh, it looks just like windows 95' she said..'without the windows
bit'....

I explained that a;ll operating systems looked like that, except with
windows the screen just goes blank, and with a MAC it goes grey with a
spinning wheel.