Installation with no cdrom support

[jdvilla]

I just inherited a some very old computers:

1. Packard Bell 80486 SX
2. Citus ????

My questions is about the Packard Bell, although I have heard some negative things about the company, I don't remember what they were.

Anyway, what I'm looking for is a way in which I can use a floppy disk to tell the pc to look boot from the cd-rom. Is this possible at all?

Or any method by which I can install RH8 onto this machine. I would try a network installation, but there is no NIC card.

[JamminJoeyB]

You should be able to make a boot disk and install from there. I think this is still an option, check the docs to be sure.

However RH may be a bit taxing on this system. You don't mention how much memory you have in the PB. This is going to be the one thing that limits your ability to run a distro like RH.

You might want to look at another distro for this system.

[jdvilla]

Well, I have a boot disk from another RH8 installation and when I use it says can't load /dev/hda . I can enter in a location, but I'm not sure to tell it where the cdrom is because there is an existing windows installation on hda. I tried /tmp/cdrom but that doesn't work

As far as memory, it has 4 slots which total 128, and I and I won't be running a GUI on it.