installing Linux by floppy to get driver

[John Abreau]

Erik Price <erikprice at mac.com> writes:

> I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install 
> Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something.  The problem is that 
> he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it.  I know that the IDE driver 

Does he have a supported network card in the machine? If so, you could
always do an nfs install. I've done a bunch of these with Redhat, and 
it's always worked great.

Of course, this assumes you have a second box you can use as the nfs 
server. 


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