On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote: > I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is > that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The > solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard > disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No, > unfortunatly he can't boot from the CDROM. Not supported in the bios.
>From win 95, you should be able to do a loadlin from a dos prompt. I don't remember the exact command line args, but you need to tell it where the kernel image is and where the root filesystem is. The easiest thing will be to do a floppy install (make the disks from win 95 and rawrite), and start off using loadlin until you are comfortable with lilo to overwrite your mbr and get a dual boot system. For more details, you'll probably have to look at the install and loadlin docs. HTH, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
