Hi,

I have a 'laptop' (ok I'll admit its a Virgin Webplayer* but lets not worry too much about that now) that I want to install Red Hat on.

Unfortunately it has no CD or floppy drive so basically I need to put the Red Hat files on the hard drive connected to another PC and have the install launch on the first boot

I've looked on the web for this but I can only find articles that require a boot floppy to kick off the install.

Can this actually be done?



*I know there are some Linux images available for the Virgin Webplayer but I didnt really want to use any of those because I wanted to do it myself.

The drive in your Webplayer will need to be formatted before the install can take place. Without a floppy or cd to startup from I am not sure how you could begin a generic install... (I've only ever accomplished this via netboot floppy or cdrom.) But once you get a RH system loaded you could upgrade or modify from FTP or HTTP repositories.

Perhaps you should start with the virgin player image, then customize the build.

Good luck