Re: [RULE] Off Topic Question

[Joe Sprankle]

Thanks Martin,
I actually found that Debian has a whole section in their install manual on
how to do it with Deb. I was actually torn between Deb and RH (package
management was why I was switching from Slackware). So Debian it is for now.
Thanks for the reply.
joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Stricker" <address@hidden>
To: "The main mailing list of the RULE project" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [RULE] Off Topic Question


> > Joe Sprankle wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install RedHat on a laptop with no floppy or CDROM. It
> > currently runs slackware which I installed from a PCMCIA CDROM. I no
> > longer have acess to that drive. Is there a way I could copy the RH
> > files to a seperate partition on my hard drive, and set lilo to boot
> > from there? If so what should the lilo entry look like?
>
> Hmmmm... You can do a harddisk install by copying all the CD ISO images
> onto the harddisk. But you need to boot into the installer - or is there
> a way to directly call anaconda? Maybe with slinky... And there should
> be a possibility to boot into the installer via the network, but I don't
> know how. Michael, any idea?
>
> If your question is about the Red Hat installer, there is an
> anaconda-list (or the like) among the Red Hat mailing lists.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Stricker
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