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Linux on an old box and no CD
Name: astropicachu Date: January 22, 2003 at 19:02:03 Pacific OS: Clean or 3.1 CPU/Ram: 5x86 Cyrix/20MB
Comment:
I people, I have this old PC and I would like to make a nice Linux box of it. It has a hdd with 850Mb and for now I can only install linux through the floppy disc, so, no CD boot. I have a few Linux versions, is there a way to pass the linux o.s. from the CDs to floppies? So I could boot from them? Any help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks
Name: David Perry Date: January 23, 2003 at 04:28:18 Pacific
Reply:
Many linux distributions have a boot from floppy option that will allow you to pull from a media other than CD, for example FTP. You can d/l a bootnet floppy from redhat and install the whole system over a network connection either ftp, nfs or http.
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