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cbagger01

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Posted: May 31 2004,01:05

If you search the forum, there is a method described on how to install DSL on to a computer with NO CDROM drive using a bunch of floppies.

skaos

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Posted: June 01 2004,12:22

The bios in pre-1997 (or thereabouts) pc's doesn't support booting from the cd drive. Apart from the initial loading of the kernel (I think), Linux doesn't use the bios - i.e. if you use a Linux boot diskette, it should see the cd drive (at least if it is an ide drive, it may not work with scsi or other types of drives).

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Posted: June 07 2004,18:53

Quote (covert91 @ May 26 2004,10:52)

I want to install DSL on a 486DX w 16Mb ram but the motherboard won't recognize that I have added a 8X cdrom. Can I install from a series of floppys?

HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy, HD install "floppy" only

Works every time I have tried it...my machine is a 75Mhz Pentium (classic) (90 if on turbo!!!), 16Megs RAM, 504Meg HD.

Just follow the directions and it will run...16Megs of ram I believe is almost too little to run DSL (get extreeeeemly slow due to excessive swapping) but it does run!!!!

If I could get the dang WLAN PCMCIA and AIRSNORT to run I would have one hell of a Wardriving box (WARBRICK) The thing is about indestructable...hehe

Brian
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