Floppy install 1456
On 25 May 2006 11:19:25 -0700, jacobbran staggered into the Black Sun and said:
When using that never-to-be-sufficiently-damned "G2" excuse for a make it do a semblance of the right thing.
My first advice would be to forget it. Really. An x86 that can't boot from CD probably doesn't have enough RAM or CPU speed to make it easy to run most of the fun GUI apps. That and modern distros buttume that your machine can boot from CD. A few years back, all distros came with floppy images on the first CD, and you could use the provided RAWRITE.EXE to write a boot floppy from 'Doze. Then you could boot from that floppy, the kernel would mount the first CD, and you could install Linux.
I use Slackware and two boxen here don't have CDROMs. Slackware may install over NFS network from a 3 floppy boot plus a network driver floppy. Another...
If you're determined to install Linux on this 1998-era machine, you may be better off with an older distro like SuSE 6.4. Older Slackware distros (7.0 or so) could install a basic system with no CDs, just 14 floppies, but you don't want to do that. I think your best bet would be to take a machine that *can* boot from CD and run Knoppix (or another LiveCD distro), so you can see how you like it. Then install a distro like that for real. Most modern distros make it easy to resize FAT-NTFS filesystems and set up dual-booting, so no worries there.
One more thing: People here (and elsewhere on the Net) will take you more seriously if you Capitalize Correctly, spel right, punctuate;!?!, correctly, and don't use SMS-speak like "gr8", k thx lol. Hope that helps,
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