can you boot your laptop off a floppy? assuming yu can then you can make the 
boot floppy from the hd.img file in /images on the 1st cd, copy the cdfiles 
to a partition on the notebook and boot

i've only done this a couple of times so i'm not sure if you have to put the 
rpms in /Mandrake/RPMS2 of the 2nd cd in a directory of same name or lump 
them in with those in .../      RPMS, it may be that the hard disk install doesn't 
use those rpms - any one out there know this?

bascule

p.s. make boot floppies from the alternative 'hd.img's as well so you can 
reboot with them quickly if the main one doesn't work, my machine only works 
with install floppies using 2.2-BADZ2 -  whatever that is

On Thursday 23 August 2001 3:03 am, you wrote:
> Can I install 8.1 off a hard drive vs. of CD distribution? My notebook does
> not have a CD-ROM drive. :-(  How would I do it?
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> Edas

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