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

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 23:23:12 +0200,
  Arrigo Marchiori <dido at quipo.it> wrote:
> 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.

I think I'll give that a try. I'll probably have to wait a bit as I think
I only have a copy of the DVD iso at home and I will need to get CD isos
burnt at work, which I probably won't get to do until next week.

I do have lilo and RH 6.2 already on the laptops, so I should be able to
do something.