installing Linux by floppy to get driver

[Matthew J. Brodeur]

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On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Erik Price 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 
> is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI 
> model -- it's a Digital Celebris model, or something like that.

   I *think* that Red Hat's standard boot floppy (boot.img) supports SCSI 
cards & CD-ROMs.  You may need one of the supplemental driver disks 
(drvblock, oldcdrom, etc) as well, but I don't think so.  I'd create the 
boot floppy and see what it detects.
   There may be an issue with the age of the CD drive, though.  Many older 
drives can't read recordable discs.  Again, the easiest way to find out is 
to try it.


- -- 
     -Matt

I used to have a handle on life, but then it fell off.


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