[ale] Old Silicon, New Distros

[John Mills]

James -

Thanks for the note. I could certainly install by network, but I still 
need an appropriate boot diskette. What might you suggest?

Another option in the Slackware notes is kick-starting the installation 
with any of various kernels, and 'loadlin'. It also occured to me that I 
could add the CD drive to an existing GRUB or LiLo boot manager and get 
going that way. (The box currently boots RedHat-7.3 and Win95.)

I guess it's just the 'old dog/new tricks' syndrome that has me looking 
for a boot diskette.

 - Mills

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, James Sumners wrote:

> Can you not boot from diskette and then install over the network?
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:14 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > ALErs -

> >  I am upgrading a box that won't boot from a CD-ROM (even though the BIOS
> >  boot-order claims to include a CD-ROM-first setting). It looks like the
> >  viable option is 3.5" FDD.

> >  Questions:
> >   1. Are the FD image 'boot' ('bare.i', etc) and 'root' ('install[1|2].*')
> >  disk images still included in Slack-12.0, and if so, where?