aye, there's the rub, I wouldn't be able to install the minimalist distro without installing the minimalist distro, which I can't do until ... etc.
I finally got the third floppy made and everything works just fine (though I still hate floppies). David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Install some sort of minimalist distro with GRUB onto the computer. Put > the CD image onto the hard drive, and use GRUB to boot the image from > there. Some people still seem to strongly prefer LILO (the reasons are > still a mystery to me), but GRUB is definitely what you need in this > particular instance. Best tool for the job and such. > > I've personally done this before, and it works fine, at least for Fedora > Core. I am not sure how Slack's installer would react to such a move - > try to use a netinstall iso if one exists. > > -DMZ > > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 13:11 -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > > Here's a challenge for the pros. > > > > Have an older Micron, BIOS doesn't allow booting from CDROM. > > > > I want to install Slack 10.1, but it seems that now you need to make > > three floppies - one boot, and two root disks. I'm sick of floppies and > > anyway for some reason the floppies I'm making aren't working for some > > reason. > > > > So ... other than finding a new BIOS and flashing it (no luck so far on > > finding one), any clever ideas? > > > > Could I make a boot floppy with nothing but LILO on it, configured to > > pass off to /dev/hdc (the bootable CDROM)...? > > > > > -- > David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
