At 07:07 AM 12/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> > I have a laptop with a bad floppy drive and an external SCSI CD. I
> > have a small DOS partition on the hard drive. Is it possible to
> > initiate an install from a hard drive? I only need to get far enough
> > along to start reading from the CD.
>
>dosutils/autoboot/*
Does your motherboard BIOS allow booting from SCSI? If so, does your SCSI
adapter allow booting from CDROM? If yes to both, this should be easy. I
just did an install of mandrake 6.1 with no floppy. Just put the cdrom in
and boot (you may need to tweak the BIOS a bit first).