[lug] Install help

[Jeff Howell]

"William M. Jarosko" wrote:
> 
> Well I find myself with a bit of a problem....  I have an IBM 760XL with
> floppy and cdrom, however I do not have the ability to have both
> connected at the same time. What I would like to do is install RH 6.1,
> 6.2 beta or even Corel on this machine. However the cdrom on this
> machine is not bootable. I've tried running autoboot from a small DOS
> partition with 6.1 and it tried to load the GUI and hangs, changing
> terminals I get a message something to the effect that it can't open a
> security profiles file. So I figure I need to do the install texted
> based, however all of the distro's I have try to load a GUI with
> autoboot except RH5.2 which is now installed on this machine.
> 
>   Is there a way to force the boot.img to the hard drive or start the
> install process from inside 5.2, or even force autoboot to text mode.
> I've tried to give autoboot a text switch but no luck.
> 
> Thanks
> Bill
> 
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I've worked with an identical setup. We ended up exporting the install CD from 
another machine and installing via NFS over the PCMCIA NIC. We were installing 
Slackware 7 and it worked like a champ.
-- 
 Jeff Howell
 EDS Unix Support
 
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