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).


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