Core2 install stymied on old (i686) computer...

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, George Williams wrote:

>  I have an old machine which won't boot from cdrom, nor from a USB
> device.
>  I was able to install RH9 from a floppy, but that doesn't seem to be
> supported any more.
>  I have the disk space to copy all CDs onto a disk (which will not be
> munched by the install process). Is there any way to boot from that?

copy the kernel and the initrd off the cd onto your tharddrive and add a 
grub entry for them... then you can boot off your hardrive and install 
from the local disk or from the cd's...

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