From: "Amir Tal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
You might be able to load the boot image from another computer in the network, if your network card supports it. See http://www.iglu.org.il/LDP/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.html Sagi ================================================================= 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]
