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Arjen

2002-10-03, 8:25 am

Would it be possible to install Redhat 8.- without using a floppy or a
cd-rom boot. I can only boot into dos (without cd rom). I was thinking of
copying a bootdisk into it's C-drive otr maybe using the network. Would this
be possible ?

Thx
Arjen


Joe Fredrickson

2002-10-03, 7:25 pm

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:06 pm, Arjen posted to alt.os.linux the following
blurb ::

> Would it be possible to install Redhat 8.- without using a floppy or a
> cd-rom boot. I can only boot into dos (without cd rom). I was thinking of
> copying a bootdisk into it's C-drive otr maybe using the network. Would
> this be possible ?
>
> Thx
> Arjen


I have a laptop with this problem so what I did was take the drive out of
the laptop and inserted it into my desktop machine, created a small 10M
partition and configured the install apps to boot from that partition
(naturally it had to be network install). I put the disk back in the laptop
and booted it up, besides the heafty wait for some packages to download
the install went quickly and fine. Once everything was working I just
transplanted /boot into this 10M partition and nothing has gone wrong yet.

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