[Rule] Notes about slinky-0.5c and Fedora Core 5

Arrigo Marchiori dido at quipo.it
Fri Sep 22 00:23:12 EEST 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:55:03AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> I have the same setup you do. I have 24MB of memory, a pcmcia network card
> and I have to choose between a floppy and a CD and the bios won't boot off
> of a CD.
>
> I posted about some of the same problems you had and there was an updated
> build after that that addressed the kernel mismatch, but some needed kernel
> modules weren't built, so I can't get the updated rule build to work in my
> case.

I think you could do the same trick with GRUB, if you already have an
O.S. working on the laptop: you'll be able to boot the floppy... without the
floppy! And then install the distribution from the CD.

-- 
rigo

http://rigo.altervista.org




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