Re: Installing w/out floppy drive?

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From: Juergen Ilse
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 00:00

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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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Date: 1997/02/27
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