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Re: REQ: Howto install Linux

It appears as if Patrick Bennett <> wrote:
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|Get yourself a copy of a distribution - I got one of my favorite
|(Mandrake 7.1) from the back of a magazine. Then, on another machine,
|follow it's steps to make a boot disk. Pop it into the floppy and go.
|Err... You never mentioned a floppy. Is there one? Is the CD drive
|bootable? If it is, the CD itself is bootable as well and will start you
|off. If not, what you need to do is something like an FTP install. Never
|done that. Anyone else have suggestions?

Yes, I have a floppy as well as a CD-ROM drive/card.
I have several version of Red Hat distributions on CD-ROMs.

Normally when I install Red Hat, the machines came from some
manufacturer [and with some kind of MS-WINDOWS on them :-]
so the hardware has been tested. This cruft I have bough piece
by piece and since I am not a hardware wizard I might have
missed something obvious to others.

The guy I bought the AMPRO Core Module (CM/DX5) CPU card from claimed it
does support booting from a CD-ROM, but I have not succeeded in getting
it to do that. Anybody who knows if it really does that?  I have not
found anything on this in the AMPRO manual.

I have also tried to boot from a floppy, but no success there either. 

FTP install would require an Ethernet card, which I don't have.

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