Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to do something which seems simple, but is
perhaps deceptively difficult. Let me explain:
I have an elderly laptop upon which I have installed Red Hat 6.0. This was
an interesting procedure because (a) the laptop has no floppy drive, and (b)
it can't boot from a CD-ROM. Which is tricky, given that just about every
installation method relies on a bootable CD-ROM or a boot floppy. How
exactly I got it working is described at
http://www.ar.com.au/~storm/toshsat200cds.html but basically it involved
copying the entire Red Hat CD onto the hard drive, rebooting into DOS (it
had Win95 installed on it when I obtained it) and using their autoboot.bat
utility.
OK, that worked fine. But now, I would like to upgrade it to Mandrake 7.2.
Same problem - can't boot from CD-ROM, can't boot from a floppy. But I also
can't find any pointer to how to kick off the installation from a working
Linux system, as I was able to kick off the Red Hat install from a working
DOS system.
My guess is that maybe if I added a Lilo entry to boot from the hard drive
as usual, using the kernel on the hard drive, but with the CD-ROM as the
root disk? Would this launch the installation as if it had been booted from
the CD? I suppose I probably should experiment a bit before pestering this
mailing list, but I'm at work, the laptop is at home, and I figured I'd ask
now and see if anyone could save me messing around..
Cheers!
David...
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