installing Linux by floppy to get driver

Erik Price erikprice at mac.com
Sat Sep 28 11:49:33 EDT 2002


On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 11:34  AM, John Abreau wrote:

>> 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.

I think he might.  But I don't have a second box to use as the nfs 
server (nor do I know how to do it if I had one).



Erik





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