On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Luis F. Orozco wrote:
> I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive,
> and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in
> it, but I still can't figure out how, short of getting a CDROM for it. I do
> have another machine with linux already running, so I'm wondering if there
> is a way to do a 'serial' or 'parallel port install'...
If you have a network card and can run DOS from the new Pentium, you
should be able to copy the stuff from the dosutils directory onto the new
machine and run autoboot from there, pointing the install program to the
shared RedHat CD (or the ftp'd sources or whatever). If you don't have a
network card, your best bet is to take the hard drive out of the new
Pentium and put it into the other machine and do an install there. Be
careful that you keep the devices the same between the two machines, or
you'll have trouble booting the new install if it wants to mount /dev/hda1
as root, but /etc/fstab says its /dev/hdb1...
Good luck!
B
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