At 10:16 AM 12/21/2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 08:18, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I do have a USB 2.5" drive case that I can put a drive in with the CDs on, but is it worth the effort? Will the install recognize that?
Does anyone know were to point me to info on how to get the install to get things like PCMCIA and USB drivers installed initially?
If you have another box available, it is probably easier to to an NFS install than to deal with hardware the install kernel doesn't handle. If you download the iso images to a directory that is NFS exported, then boot the pc in question with the first CD and type 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt, you can do the rest of the install over the network.
That ASSuMEs that you have a network card that does not require either PCMCIA or USB!
What I guess I am headed for is how to set up a hard drive that will be 'prepartitiones'? And the stuff sitting on a partition on the end I can afford to 'loose' (4Gb worth?).
But USB would be nice!
It also saves burning and swapping in the other CD's so it is nicer even if you don't have a problem with the CD drive.
I already have those CDs.