[Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom

[James]

All,

  Two laptops... two slightly different conditions.  Neither boxen has a cdrom 
drive.  I do however have a pcmcia cdrom that works with both of them.  However 
since cdrom drives where not available from the get go, bios does not allow for 
booting from a cdrom.  On both boxes the way to install windwoze would be to 
create a recovery disk on another box then use it to boot the box copy the 
windows cab files to the hdd and run setup.  This works. Now the question comes 
how to do this with linux.  

  My thought would be that I could use the initrd.img's from this guys page. 
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5112/  He managed to modify the 
initrd's for Earlier Redhats to boot into the RH cd's.  

  Question is.  Where can I find compilable source for Anaconda.  The source on 
my 7.0 disks doesn't compile. (More errors than you can imagine) and the 7.1 
source I downloaded gave the same problem... Maybe it's cause I'm on Mandrake 
*grin*  at any rate I'd like to be working from the same code base as everyone 
else.  

  Any other suggestions on how to get this to work when you DON"T have a built 
in cdrom would be helpful.

James