Re: laptop installation

[Bill <bill wiliweld com>]

Sarah J Straith wrote:
> 
> Ok, new question.
> 
> I need to install linux on a KIWI laptop with NO CDRom
> drive. <sigh>
> 
> It is a Cyrix 586/100
> 32 Meg RAM (Maxed)
> OPTi82C930 Sound System
> Chips & Tech Super VGA
> Touchpad (in Keyboard)
> 
> Modem & Network Cards are PCMCIA
> 
> This is to be a Linux ONLY system, so I won't have to worry
> about dealing with duel boot.
> 
> My question is this, "What is the best (and easiest)  way to
> install Linux (preferably RH 6.1) on this machine?"
> 
> All help and advise cheerfully accepted.
> 

	Mount the cd on another linux box within an tcp/ip network, choose the
FTP install with the bootnet.img image (floppy) and when you get to the
point of giving directions, tell it the IP of the machine you mounted
the cd on, and the mount point (example) "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
....... and this mount point would be "/mnt/cdrom" with no " " quote
marks of course.

	I have a laptop with no CDROM and have done this countless times. I did
have a failure twice, once when Mandrake had a bad floppy for this in
6.0, and when I had a pcmcia card that wasn't identified at install
time.


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