>Greetings to all,
>
>I tried installing RH 5.0 on my dad's NT box but without success.  I
>can't seem to find a true dos prompt under NT and it seems as though
>Linux requires a true dos prompt for installation.  Any help will be
>appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>Jase


    Your correct...NT Does not have a true protected mode (doc
prompt)...What you should do is boot off of a Win95 Boot Disk (or some
dos/windows disk) and run install off the linux cd from there (loadlin or
rdev for bootdisk)

Here is another source:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/Linux+WinNT

Hope this helps!

-Regards
Peeyush Singh

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