This is either fairly easy or all but impossible, depending on what you have
available to you.
If you have nothing but the single bare computer, with a new HD, a floppy
drive, and no CD-ROM drive, I doubt you will be able to do a Red Hat
install. In this case, one option is to look to Slackware; older versions
(through 3.4) were organized to allow installation of all packages via
floppy, and newer versions (I checked 3.5; the current version is 3.6) still
support the floppy-install option for the basic ("A") and networking ("N")
components. Or try Debian, which offers installation directly over the
Internet (you need to get a set of installation floppies to make this work).
On the other hand, if you have another Linux box with a CD-ROM drive, and
both the old and new machines have Linux-supported NICs (Ethernet cards) in
them, you should be able to do a Red Hat install over a LAN.
You'll need to make a Red Hat install floppy, which the RH docs should tell
you how to do using either DOS or Linux. Use it to boot the target (new)
machine, follow the instructions, and when you get to installation method,
choose NFS install. You'll need to have the RH CD in the other Linux box,
and the other box needs to be running the NFS daemons. Make the appropriate
directory in the CD-ROM exportable over your LAN. The RH installer on the
target machine will prompt you for network addresses and such, and it should
then do the install over the LAN.
This outline may be a bit too sketchy; if so, sorry. Since I don't know what
equipment you have access to, I don't really know what your options are.
There are a variety of ways to install Linux, but some may be best done with
a distribution other than RH.
At 10:38 PM 12/26/98 -0800, Edward J.O'Connor wrote:
>Trying to install RH5.2 on a virgin HD in a PC sans cdrom without
>using Microsoft software. How ?
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