Re: Help Installing Linux on BIOS that doesnt' support cdrom/usb booting.

[nrrobbin@xxxxxxx]

It is, and to my knowledge ( last time I looked ) distributions still have
a floppy image on the CD.  check in the first CD, it should be labeled
something obvious like, "floppy tools" or some such. ( and if you are
using Windows now, there should also be a folder that has windows tools to
write said image )

-Nick, reminiscent of the days he had to swap 40 floppy's to install
Slackware


> Anthony,
>> How can I go about installing linux on a machine that has a cdrom
>> drive
>> but doesn't support booting from CDROM?
>
> You can boot off a floppy that has a small linux kernel and
> compressed root file system that loads itself into a RAM-disk, then
> mount the CD and install the packages from there. That is how most
> distributions back in the day dealt with the problem, IIRC.
>
> --
> Adam
>