[Gllug] single boot disk install

Ms. Lene Jensen ljensen at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 09:48:49 UTC 2003


On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Xander D Harkness wrote:

> Murray wrote:
> 
> >I'm after a(ny) linux distro that can be installed with
> >
> >  exactly 1 floppy disk
> >  pcmcia ethernet connection
>
> >Does one exist?
> >
> I think you could do this with Red Hat 7.2 on a "bootnet" floppy with 
> the one additional pcmcia driver copied onto the floppy.

Actually, all RH distros up to v9 can do so, RHEL included. I know at 
least older versions of Mandrake and Slackware had that capability as 
well.  I would guess that both Debian and Suse also can do it.

LJ
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