Installing Linux

[NorstarOption]

How do I install a Linux OS on a laptop without a bootable cd rom. This is going to be my first time installing this OS. I need the easiest way to install it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[rvijay17]

For first timers, I'll suggest Lycoris which is the easiest to install. Partitioning can be a problem but for that you can go through a tutorial.

If you just want to try Linux, I'll suggest Knoppix that does not need any installation and even does not need a hard disk. You just have to boot with the CD and voila, you are using Linux.

 

[Newposter]

But if he can't boot from a CD, which is what I think he is saying?.....

Redhat 8.0 allows you to make a bootable floppy, then install from the CDs - easy GUI for the novice. Newposter
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."

 

[Programmingjunkie]

RH8 is easy to set up and will recognize most of the hardware on laptops right out of the box.

 

[rookie10]

I tried installing Redhat 7.0, I could access the cd but I don't know what's the command to install it manually. I have a sony laptop and everything is external. Unfornately, I don't have the original cd rom. I have a different brand of cd rom so it is not bootable. That's the problem I have.

 

[Programmingjunkie]

I would have to agree with the others in that case and suggest making a boot disk and running the install from that. I know that RH 7 and 8 both offer that option.

Hope this will help...

Dave

 

[Newposter]

rookie10, go to

http://www.redhat.com

and look for the documentation for installing that will tell you how you can make a bootable floppy on a Windows machine from an executable on CD #1 of Linux. Then you boot your new linux box off the floppy and it will run the CD installation. Newposter
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."