[Sussex] Install without floppy or CD drive

[Ken Adams]

Quoting David Chapman <dokterdave at ntlworld.com>:

> I have just got myself an IBM Thinkpad 570 which does not have a floppy or a
> 
> CD drive.
> It does have Win98 installed on a 6GB hard drive and I have shrunk the M$ 
> partion with partion magic and created / swap and /home partions.
> I do have a PCMCIA network card and I could do a network install but how
> would 
> I get it to boot for the install proccess to run.
> 
>  Much help appreciated.

Very easy this one. Do it regularly myself.

On another machine, with CD, share the drive. place the install CD in here.

On the laptop...

Get the network running so you can see the shared CD on the other machine.

Double clicking the CD SHOULD autoboot the CD as if you had put it in a windows 
machine as normal. From here you should have a menu with an install option.

This has worked for me on 3 separate occasions over the last year and I know it 
works fine with Fedora, Mandrake, and CentOS.

Rgds Ken

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