MikeyD wrote:
>>um if you can read the dvd to make the iso images, why don't you just
>>boot from the dvd to install? it works.
>
>
> Maybe like me he has no home dvd drive, but can record the isos at work or
> something.

Ah to save all the speculation, I can help out here...

My main linux box has SuSE 8.1 , dvd and stuff BUT

I'm experimenting with some old Pentiums with 64Meg ram which I want to
network - just to see if I can- and want an un-bloated OS.
The problem I have is that these old boxes don't like a boot image over
1.4Meg in size and I am very definitely at the learning stage for
burning bootable ISOs.

So - as soon as I work out how... I will burn a bog standard Slackware
ISO install CD and make a boot floppy diskette which has just enough
info to drice the CDROM and find the CD's boot image.

I know I could burn the 1.4M floppy image onto the CD but I feel sure
that some of the boxes don't even boot from CD acording to the BIOS so I
guess the floppy poining to the CDROM is a safer bet.

If anyone knows of some good HOWTO pages which explain a little about
boot/root images ramdisk and the order everything happens on power-up
I'd be grateful

Cheers folks

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Andy Richardson
99% of Linux users moved away from Windows
99% of Windows users don't know there's a choice