At 10:36 PM 2/9/2000 , you wrote:
if you'd like i can make a img of my 5.2 boot
~kurth
>(Please forgive me for asking a question driven pure, unadulterated laziness)
>
>Does anyone know if it is possible to boot a machine with a Redhat 6.1
>boot floppy and trick it into installing Redhat 5.2? For me it always
>complains the installation source doesn't look like Redhat 6.1.
>
>
>I ask this because I am looking at buying a laptop that has a USB
>external floppy drive. I have verified that it will boot either of the
>Redhat 5.2 and 6.1 boot floppies. I want to install Redhat 5.2 on it,
>however the Redhat 5.2 install requires a 2nd floppy (for a network
>install), and perhaps not surprisingly, linux cannot recognize and/or
>mount anything on the floppy it booted off of under these
>circumstances!
>
>I understand I can hack around this somehow by making a custom boot floppy.
>I just wanted to know if it was possible to trick the Redhat 6.1 install
>to do 5.2 instead since that would be really easy...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Karl Runge
>
>
>
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