I have an old machine which does not have a cdrom or a floppy drive. It did have a working copy of msdos and a network adapter, so I copied the install CD onto the hard disk and installed it from there, starting the process with loadlin IIRC. If you can boot off the CD then you will not need the complication of using loadlin, and will not need the network connection to copy the important bits of the CD to the harddisk either. I was using 6.2 at the time, based on information in the manual. HTH Clive. On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Help Please,
I'm trying to install SuSE 6.4 on an IBM Thinkpad 755CD.
The Thinkpad has 40Mb Ram and 5.2 Gb Hdd. It also has a removable CD ROM/ FDD combination - I can either have the FDD or CD ROM drive in the bay but not both! It also has a D-Link PCMCIA Ethernet card installed (DE-660CT) which works under Windows '95 but not under Linux. I can get an install (after a fashion) by running setup from the CD ROM but am then unable to access the CD ROM drive.
Any ideas any one?
Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School