Am Sa, den 09.07.2005 schrieb Ryan D'Baisse um 2:40: No HTML formatted list mails please. Thanks. > Newbie here... be gentle... Welcome :) > I have a 1.2GHz laptop that I would like to run FC4 on (well, > truthfully, I just want to get rid of XP). The CD/DVD drive is on its > way out and the wired RJ-45 is destroyed. The only NIC that exists > for it is an after-market Linksys PCMCIA 54g (which worked quite well > on it previously). I need to find a way to either boot from a floppy, > or a VERY minimal boot CD, and then do a server-based install. In > fact, it would be GREAT if it were possible to do an install from a > FTP server, similar to how FreeBSD does it. > -- Ryan http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-before-begin.html#sn-installing-networkinstallation http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ch-other-install-methods.html http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/images/boot.iso this is a small CD image of 6.4M size for network installation The problem is you NIC. The Linksys has (I am sure) no Linux drivers. Maybe you can get a different NIC from a friend for the time of installation. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 02:44:36 up 13 days, 9:36, load average: 0.72, 0.49, 0.40
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