Re: Installing w/out floppy drive?

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From: Jacky Ho
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:00

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Same for Slackware 96.

In article <5f4if9$aen@asysha.asys-h.de>, ilse@asysha.asys-h.de (Juergen Ilse) writes:
> Hallo,
> Mike Overvold (103267.1251@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
> : Is it possible to get around the boot disk routine?  I ask since 
> : I don't have a working floppy.  Respond to 
> : 103267.1251@compuserve.com
> : 
> : Thanks
> : Mike Overvold
> : 
> There are some distributions, that use loadlin to load the kernel and the
> Ramdiskimage from CD. So it is not necessary to have a working floppy to
> install it. One of these distributions is the SuSE-distribution, which is
> very popular in germany (have a look at http://www.suse.de/). I don't know,
> which other distributions have such a feature. This method is only applicable,
> if you have DOS and a working CDROM-driver on your harddisk...
> 
> hope that helps,
> 		Juergen Ilse									(ilse@asys-h.de)

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