[RULE] Install on Laptop with NO FLOPPY drive

[Olaf Lieser]

Hi there,


My name is Olaf (new to this mailing list) and I want to install RULE'd  
Fedora on a fairly modern machine (Dell Dimension 4150) - that is to have a 
fast machine and fight bloat ! 
I have been more of a Debian man rather than Redhat, but it seems that with
some experience one can RULE any distro - or am I getting something wrong ?
The plan is to start with your given standards - and if my skills permit, I 
port it gladly to a Debian flavor of Rule.


Please give me Rule-newbie a few tips if you can:

How is hardware recognition (wireless, sound, usb-support including a wide 
(well, if possible...) range of devices,..) ?
A benchmark for me would be Knoppix-like (that is, real good -:) ).

But EQUALLY IMPORTANT:
 
how would I go about installing a RULE'd FEDORA Core 3 with NO floppy drive
available and a laptop that's not USB-Stick bootable?
(I went to "PHASE OUT" floppies some time ago  - and after all I have always 
been able to work around resulting problems .... .-) 

I guess the .img file will not work for me - and you don't seem to have an ISO 
image for Fedora (yet).

Install an earlier ISO of yours and upgrade somehow?
If need be, a network install may be possible, too. Over the Net or maybe 
setting up my own NFS or FTP server  on other machine where I can put some 
packages or something.

I would need to first boot somehow off a CD but then "RULE / FEDORA - ize" the 
installation.  Use "Fedora-proper" CD for that?

Thanks for your help! Keep up your good work!



Olaf 

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