[wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?

[Poyner, Brandon]

	If you can't boot from a CD, you'll need a bootable floppy to
start the process. 
	A floppy boot image can be found on the Knoppix CD at
KNOPPIX/boot.img. You can
	use the rawrite program also under the KNOPPIX subdirectory to
create the floppy,
	or under Linux, you can use the command:

	dd if=mounted_cdrom_directory/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0
bs=18k

	With boot floppy in hand, you should be able to reboot your
system and load Knoppix. 

Quoted from  http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-04/tech_support_01.html

You can do a similar process for Fedora.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:02 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?

I'd suggest Fedora or Knoppix (Knoppix can be installed on the HDD as
well) but I'm not sure what you'd have to do to install either of those
without a bootable CD.