I'm having some trouble getting Linux installed. The cdrom isn't bootable, and I can't have the cd and floppy in at the same time(can't use sbootmgr).

Is it possible to load up the boot disk and then the two root disks, and then copy that ram disk to a Linux ext2 partition on the hard drive and then shut down, swap in the cdrom and install? (if so, how?

Thanks!

Yeah, but that's a headache. If you mount the bare.i floppy after getting all 3 disks loaded, and then dd the floppy's bootloader to /dev/hda and then copy the kernel onto there, and then edit the boot options to point to the initrd on the cdrom to shoe-horn the install, that'll work... maybe, but there's intricacies in there I don't know about for certain.

Then there's always NFS, just copy the CD's contents to a directory on another machine and boot with the bare.i disk and add in the pcmcia disk to get networking, and then readup on NFS and get it on there over the network... or if you don't have another unix/linux box handy for nfs...

Do a base, barebones net-install of Debian, then edit it's lilo and add in the slack kernel and initrd from the cdrom as another lilo boot option... and then reclaim the debian space blamo with slack on the install.

Cheers,

Finegan

Ahh, yea. I've got an install of OS X... I tried to copy over the net work before, but got an error, probably because I didn't load that networking disk . Alright, thanks I'll try that

I'm trying to make an mp3 jukebox for my car... if I can get linux onto this thing, I'll take pictures and document it .

Thanks

Honestly, if you're not picky about distro... everyone else has a network install so you just go from 2/3 floppies and download the rest of the OS from rsyn or ftp, and they're a breeze: RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake, and of course, Debian.

Cheers,

Finegan