Can you Boot to floppy distro and see cdrom in windows?

[thescribe7]

A friend and I are having a heck of a time trying to load linux on an AT&T p5-75 laptop with 16mg ram and a 500mg hdd, and no cdrom.
My question is: is it possible to boot to a floppy distro with networking, and see a shared out cdrom on a windows system? That way we can put a slack image in the cdrom.
Thanx!

[Dark Ninja]

Although I only tried to access a CD across a network one time, I remember that it had failed miserably. Not saying you couldn't do it, but it would probably be better just to get an external CD and attach it to the computer.


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[Urko]

Yes it may be a bit tricky but quite possible.
I would
1. Make a dos or linux floppy (check out linuxrouter.org and look for pcmcia) that gets me pcmcia network support with tcpip and has a ftp client

2. Set up an ftp server on windows ( check out winsite.com and search for ftp server)

3. Do an ftp install of a distro that supports this mode of install (I have no experience with this)
or
get a distro like vector linux or peanut linux that consists of 3 files roughly 60-100m and just ftp them over and do the install per the install guide ( I have done this. These are very nice laptop distros especially made to be small but full featured)

Almost forgot peanut and vector both are slackware derivatives

[ 27 April 2001: Message edited by: Urko ]

[ 27 April 2001: Message edited by: Urko ]