IBM 755CD

[Bill Mair]

Frank 'Crash' Edwards wrote:

> > >You could mount the CD on another machine and make it available by FTP
> > >or NFS, then boot off the floppy and perform a network install.
> >
> > That's an idea. I'll have to get a cable and try that. Thanks for the the
> > suggestion.
>
> I expected to hear, "Nope, no PC Card slots on this machine." (!)

He he.

> I had an old 486 laptop without a CDROM drive.  And the clone manufacturer
> used some PCMCIA chipset that the bootdisk images wouldn't recognize, so
> no CDROM, no network, only the floppy.

That is how I installed RHL 5.2 on my 701, the ftp install refused to work, so I
ended up having to use nfs. Has RH fixed this with 6.0 ?

A question to mandrake though.. As far a I can see Mandrake is only a repackaged
RHL 6.0, with everything recompiled for the Pentium. Is that right ? Or are there
other differences ?

Bill.