[RULE] Serial cable install

[Steven Fullmer]

I have an old laptop that I would like to use for very basic RH 8 installation (so I can learn Linux while at work).  

It is an IBM 486sx Thinkpad, 8 MB RAM, running Win 3.1 on MSDOS 5.02 (ouch!) with a monocrome LCD.  It has no CDROM drive, but it has a 3 1/2" floppy, serial/parallel cable ports, and a modem (don't know the baud... probably 9600)...  I believe it has just under 200 MB of harddrive total.

I've not used Linux before so just want to use it to familiarize myself with commands (and take advantage of man/info pages).  It doesn't need any graphical interface (seeing its specs, you can see why :).

>From the above options, what would you suggest I do to install RH?  I've never used serial-to-serial, or modem-to-modem before.  I understand that I would most likely benefit from a boot disk image.  I assume that bootnet.img wouldn't be what I want since I'm not using a network card.  (But who knows?  Maybe I do.)  If you could let me know, it would be great to get me started in setting up.

Steven


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