I don't think the BIOS on the machine in question allows booting off a CDROM, If it does, then the easiest way is to borrow a CD-drive from someplace, put it on your IDE bus (connect it) and boot off it.
If the BIOS does not allow CDROM boots, then use a couple of floppy disks to make the boot and root disks using the images found on the Linux CDROM. The last option (least easy and most cumbersome) is to get a *huge* bunch of floppies and make a copy of the install files... To put things into perspective, Slackware 3.0 came on a CD but allowed floppies to be used. It took ~65 floppies to get most of the stuff to install. Nowadays, 65 floppies might be considered peanuts for a worthwhile install. Be warned that some of the later distros do not even expect you to use floppies and have packages that are bigger that what a floppy can hold. So I would suggest you try getting hold of a CDROM drive and try installing with it. -Naren On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I want to install linux on an old computer (Pentium-S, 8 MB RAM, mono monitor, no > CD drive). This system will be used to enter data into a simple database. I am > thinking of MySQL. This is a stand-alone system. Doesn't have a modem. > > How should I install Linux on this system? What distribution should I use? > > TIA. > > -- > Narayana > > A university is very much like a coral reef. It provides calm waters > and food particles for delicate yet marvellously constructed organisms > that could not possibly survive in the pounding surf of reality, where > people ask questions like `is what you do of any use?' and other nonsense. > -- Terry Prachett > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
