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Can anyone help me? I want to set up a LINUX machine, but the PC has
not got a CD-ROM. I do however have access via a Network to an HP9000
running HP-UX and there is also a WIN95 pc with TCP/IP support that
has a CDROM drive.

I thought maybe that I could put enough Linux on a floppy to enable me
to copy or access the rest of the Slackware installation either mounted
on the HP system (or some how on the WIN95 PC, less likely I guess).

Is there a FAQ somewhere, that might answer my question.

: Can anyone help me? I want to set up a LINUX machine, but the PC has
: not got a CD-ROM. I do however have access via a Network to an HP9000
: running HP-UX and there is also a WIN95 pc with TCP/IP support that
: has a CDROM drive.

: I thought maybe that I could put enough Linux on a floppy to enable me
: to copy or access the rest of the Slackware installation either mounted
: on the HP system (or some how on the WIN95 PC, less likely I guess).

I installed Slakware Linux on my notebook PC which only has access to a
CD-ROM through a parallel port SCSI adapter.  The Slakware installation
procedure gives you the option of installing from any of several sources,
including from a CD-ROM, a mounted hard disk or from floppies.  I used the
install-from-hard-disk method by copying the relevant packages from the
CD-ROM into a directory on the hard disk using MS-DOS, then entering setup
and specifying installation from the DOS directory.  Worked like a charm,
but it required more hard disk space since all packages being installed
were resident twice on the hard disk.

Don't know about the capabilities of the installers for other
distributions.

Bryan

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