Does anyone know a way to install Mandrive LE2005 by booting from a floppy and then switching to CDs? My PC (Pentium 3-450) does not boot from CD-ROM.

I have found a method for doing this with Fedora Core 4 using six (yes 6!) diskettes at
www<dot>bhamu<dot>net/index<dot>php/2005...py-disk-install. However, even though this startup method worked, I ultimately did not succeed in installing FC4. Therefore, I am now interested in doing a similar installation of LE2005, that is, starting from floppy.

It should be possible to apply the technique used with Fedora to Mandriva LE2005 but I don't quite have the experience.

Can anyone help?


-Niff

Well SuSE 9.x install DVDs have floppy diskette images on them, which you write to floppies (using Linux or the rawrite Win32 utility also on the DVD). The set is 5-6 diskettes. After loading the floppies, installation continues from CD or DVD (or network I believe). I imagine that Mandriva will have with boot floppy images as well, so have a look on the CDs / DVD for them.