Booting without a CD drive

Dave J N · 05-20-2003, 01:39 PM

Hi,

I have successfully installed Red Hat as a dual boot on my main machine. In order to have a dedicated Linux machine, I got hold of an old unit whose BIOS does not include an option to boot from the CD drive. Is there any way I can boot Linux into it? Can I copy the Linux disks onto its hard disk, and boot from there?

It's running basic DOS with no Windows at the moment.

Thanks

david_ross · 05-20-2003, 01:42 PM

Make a boot floppy (an image is available on CD1). Use that to launch the installation from the CD.