set your BIOS to boot from CD. That workerd for me. Floppy drives seem
to hate me and are always breaking. I think that there are two things we
need to get rid of (in the USA); floppy drives and pennies. Both are
worthless.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue.
-- Ambrose Bierce, on qualifiers
WCBaker wrote:
>
> Here's a good question for you! I've put Mandrake 8.0 on a desktop and
> it's great (I'm new to Linux, by the way). Now I need to get Mandrake 8.0
> on my tiny Libretto palmtop. The palmtop currently has a Japanese version
> of Windoze 95 on it and I'd like to keep a very tiny bit of the disk for
> Windoze but have Linux eat up most of it. Problem is that my PCMCIA
> fax/modem card and the floppy drive are no longer functional (long story
> involving a lot of travelling).
>
> Is it possible to NOT use a floppy disk to boot when installing? I want to
> just use my CD (I do have access to a PCMCIA CD machine that connects quite
> nicely) and install Mandrake 8.0.
>
> Can I do this? I've seen other methods on the Net, but I need to use CD
> only. . .
>
> Hopefully,
>
> -warren
>
>
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