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no boot from CD
Name: krba Date: May 13, 2004 at 22:52:05 Pacific OS: DOS, Windows, Programming CPU/Ram: AMD, P4...
Comment:
RH is on CD. Computer is old one without BIOS option BOOT from CD.
How to install Linux from CD? (where to find (if exists something like this) some kind of startup diskette, etc...)
Name: 3Dave Date: May 14, 2004 at 03:08:46 Pacific
Reply:
If you have access to another machine running linux/DOS/windoze etc you can make a boot disk by using images on the first installation CD....this is true for the majority of GNU/Linux distributions.
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