[wellylug] Installing without a CD drive

Rob Giltrap rob at ubietygroup.com
Fri Nov 7 12:53:46 NZDT 2003


I am seeking some guidance here.

I have just acquired a nice little box on the cheap, a Celeron 500, 
128Mb, 6.4GB HD with built in ethernet and a floppy, but no CD drive.
This will be my mucking around box. The HD currently has nothing on it.

I am wanting to install linux onto the system and though I could 
temorarily put a CD drive in it to perform the install I would rather 
take this opportunity to work out how to install over the network.

I have a 10/100 router which connects to my primary PC running RHL which 
holds the ISO's.

What do I need to do to get a suitable bootable floppy, connect to the 
network and then run and install over the network?

So where do I start??

Thanks, Rob.




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