RH instalation without booting into CD of floppy?
 

Hello,

I was wondering is it possible to start RH installation process without booting into CD or floppy? I mean is there a way to copy booting information from RH9.0 CD into MBR?

Thanks

It may be technically possible, but has not much sense (practical realization would result in copying the image to the hd, but not as a file). Why do you need such a configuration?

well, I found an old laptop, and it's BIOS does not support booting from CD. I downloaded a newer version of BIOS but it creates bootable floppy, which I cannot use, because there is no floppy drive (it must have had an external floppy drive, which I cannot find). So I figured that if I could start instalation process from HD I would not have to buy a new external floppy drive..

I need to boot from HD but cannot because i have no way of putting stuff onto a partition.

If you have nothing on your harddrive (nothing that boots) then I don't know. Except getting a bootable network card maybe.
If you already have some kind of windows installed however, then you can use that.
(I've only tried this with Debian)
Make a new partition for your linux.
Copy CD onto your disk, say in c:\debian3\
- Copy basesystem-tars and drivers-tars to c:\linux\
- Make your windows dos-bootable
Reboot to dos, start the installation with loadlin
After the installation has loaded
- open new console: Alt-F2
mkdir /dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dos
or
mount /dev/hda1 /dos
and install the system off the mounted /dos partition