On Sunday 07 April 2002 21:13, Shaul Karl wrote: > > hi all, > > > > this may seem like kinda dumb question, but i am desperate. > > > > i have a laptop here, with cdrom and no floppy, windows NT currently > > installed i want to install RH7.2 on it, and i have no install Cd's, just > > the ISO images. this should be no problem if i had a floppy. in that case > > i could just extract the ISO's to another machine, and run ftp\http\nfs > > install. > > > > i do have mandrake 8.2 bootable Cd's here, and RH6.2 bootable as well. > > it there some kind of a way to somehow load the bootnet image, and boot > > from it ? > > i can copy the file to the laptop's hd, but don't know if there is a way > > to somehow boot from it. > > > > any sophisticated idea's are more then welcomed. > > * Doesn't the 7.2 installation docs mention loadlin and/or installing > from the hd?
loadlin will not work for me here. this is a single hard drive, devided to 2 partitions : 2gb fat 16, and 4gb NTFS. if i locate the install packages on the hard drive, i cannot format it for linux. i didnt want to get into the minamal install and upgrading, but looks like i dont have a choice. btw - i also found RH7.0 install cd's (bootable), does this change the picture? is there a parameter that lilo can get and boot into the the net image ? which i guess is located also on teh 7.0 cd. if there is such an option, then this is something i can use. > * Isn't it possible to install a minimal 6.2 system and upgrade it to > 7.2, either directly from the 7.2 CD or by the network? -- -------------------------------------- Amir Tal, System Administrator Whatsup - Linux related news And support - in hebrew ! icq : 15748705 http://www.whatsup.org.il -------------------------------------- ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
