installing madriva w/o floppy and bootable CD

[rcsandovaljr 0]

Hi. my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive but it has a pcmcia cd-rom. how can i install mandrake considering that the pcmcia cd-rom cannot be detected by the bios upon start up. I also have no floppy drive to use as a means for booting or loading the pcmcia drive. but my hard disk has a partition where i can copy the mandirva installer. how do I install? any suggestions? thanks

[danleff 0]

No floppy or onboard cdrom drive? First, consider if this laptop would be compatible with Mandriva. Have you checked this out yet?

 

Could you post some specs. on the system? You will need at least 256 mb of ram to do the installation.

 

In your case, without a cdrom or floppy drive, you can do a hard drive installation, but would need the Grub bootloader installed on the hard drive first.

 

There may be another option, but If you are new to Linux, I would not recommend it, as you would get too confused and frustrated.