I demand that Marco d'Itri may or may not have written... > On Jun 12, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a very nice Pentium I (my internet gateway) that has a broken >> CD-drive and no USB (and certainly wouldn't boot from USB even if it had) >> but that installs perfectly from floppy.
> You said it: it's *broken*. > Expecting to support some old hardware is OK, expecting to support old and > broken hardware is not. In that case, replace the CD-ROM drive. ;-) >> There are also other platforms that only do floppy boots (older macs, >> probably m68k too). > Looks like they should use floppy + netboot then. An install on a Risc PC can be done without any removable installation media, although it's possible that the newer or less common Ethernet cards aren't supported. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) Oh my! Another kludge! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
