That depends on what you defition of "friendly" is...

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Thelin [mailto:eric@thelin.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:32 PM
To: Plug Mailing List
Subject: Re: Need help upgrading an old system


Since linux is much more friendly than "other operating systems" you can
simply put the hard drive in another machine, run the install then put
the hard drive back.  Of course finding a floppy that you can boot from
would be simpler but this way you have more choices on your
distribution.

Eric


On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Smith, Stephen P  (AZ75) wrote:

> I have an older PC (AMD 133MHz) that will not boot from the CDROM drive.
> The RH 7.0 boot images won't load from the floppy drive (although an
> installed system can use it just fine). It is currently running 6.1.
>
> Since I just got Cox at home and since I need to configure it anyway, I
want
> to upgrade.

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