On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:00, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > colleague has a 4-YO (or so) "i" series thinkpad, on which the > cd-rom drive has gone south, but he'd still like to install FC3. the > system does have a USB floppy drive from which one can boot. so ... > what are his options? i realize there's no installation boot floppy > any more with FC. Network install. Of course, that means the latop must have a bootable NIC. Check the BIOS: there should be an option to choose the boot device (look for Network Boot or something similar). HTH, Ranbir -- Ranbir Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com
