[RULE] Re: Off Topic Question

[Raymundo Baquirin]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 19:36, you wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:48:12 -0800
> From: "Joe Sprankle" <address@hidden>
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> Sorry for the off topic question but this is the one place I figured I =
> could get a good answer due to the expertise in the redhat install =
> process.
> 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?
> Any ideas would be appreciated, if this is to off topic please ignore =
> me.
> joe
I've done this a few times except I don't use lilo.  Instead I use loadlin 
(or linld for 2.4 kernels) to boot vmlinuz and point it to an initrd and/or 
root file system.  The necessary files all reside in the windows or dos 
partition. If you want to look into this, there are details of the process in 
a couple of my posts to this list (one of them quite recent).

HTH,

Ray