If you're doing a Custom installation, the Bootdisk dialog
(Figure 8-39) gives you
the opportunity to create a customized boot diskette
for your Red Hat Linux system.
A boot diskette can be handy in these situations:
Use It Instead of LILO -- You can use a boot diskette instead of
LILO. This is handy if you're trying Red Hat Linux for the first time, and
you'd feel more comfortable if the boot process for your other
operating system is left unchanged. With a boot diskette, going
back to your other operating system is as easy as removing the boot
diskette and rebooting.
Use It When Another Operating System Overwrites LILO -- Other
operating systems may not be as flexible as Red Hat Linux when it comes to
supported boot methods. Quite often, installing or updating another
operating system can cause the master boot record (originally
containing LILO) to be overwritten, making it impossible to boot
your Red Hat Linux installation. The boot diskette can then be used to boot
Red Hat Linux so you can reinstall LILO.
Select Yes and press
Space to create a boot diskette.
If you do this, you'll be prompted to insert a diskette in the
last step of the installation procedure
(the section called Finishing Up).
For instructions on how to create a boot diskette after the
installation, read the mkbootdisk man page.
Be sure you create a new boot diskette if you make any changes to your
kernel.
