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by dma69593

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I currently have a cd-rom that contains a full freeware distribution of Red Hat Linux 5.2 and was planning to use it on my pc (not install, just boot from cd) to help me with my some of my studies at TAFE. My system requirements and all that are ok and one of the requirements I need to do is to make a bootdisk. One slight problem:
I don't have a floppy drive installed. My computer came like that when I bought it.

Is there anyway I can get around this and still be able to access Linux?

regards

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by older mycroft

You will most likely find a file on the distribution disk that ends in ".iso" - this is an optical disc image. You need to burn this .iso with a program that is capable of copying disc images. Nero is one option.

The resulting disc will then boot your system into Linux from cold.

by 1bn0

I'm not sure but it sounds like you want a "LIVE" CD distribution. These are CDROM based Linus distributions that run right from the cdrom.

One list is here.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Download the .iso burn and burn it to cdrom.
Congiure your pc bios to boot from cdrom and reboot your machine with the new cd in the drive.

I would suggest you check out Knoppix or UBUNTU live cds first. The easiest link i found for these is at theopencd.org.

http://theopencd.org/getcd

The cd is a collection of open source software that runs on windows. Lots of good stuff. The LIVE downloads are also a bootable working copy of linux.

The CDROM you have is likely only good for installation to the Hard Drive.

If these options don't suit your need, do your own search on LIVE Linux distros and see what you like.

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