Hi All, Red Hat CD's have the diskette images that do just this. RH CD 1: /images/bootnet.img Create the diskettes using /dosutils/rawrite.exe read the readme...
Then boot off the new floppy. - setup will ask options like network share install OR ftp install OR http install Last time I actually aliased a W2k CDROM drive to a IIS subdirectory and used http install. Worked just fine. cheers Will At 14:12 2002-07-23 +1200, you wrote: >On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Mike wrote: > > > The question: Could you point me to a LINUX which I can load from a > > bootable floppy to the point where I can access my LAN - and through > > that, the Internet? Or maybe I can put something onto my Windows 2000 > > machine that I can use to load Linux onto my new machine. > >Hmm. The distribution which springs to mind is Debian, but it's an arse to >install (took me a couple of days the last time)...but they're about to >(in the next week or two) release a new version of the distribution. The >new version might be easier to install (but I've heard rumours that it's >just as bad). > >You can do a RedHat network install, but I don't know how. > >I've CCd this message to the linux-users list. Someone there will know (I >hope:) > >tim >http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > >Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. -- Will Pilvio 12 Somerton Rise, Christchurch, New Zealand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. & Fax: +64 (3) 338 0288 Mobile: +64 21 230 3131
