> Lots of great suggestions. One note of caution - make sure your hardware > will support the distribution you want to use.
>
> For example, I could not install RH, SuSe, or Mandrake on an older computer
> because (1) I had to install over the net because I could not use the
> floppy and CD at the same time and the CD was not bootable; and (2) I did
> not have enough memory for the net installation of these distros. However,
> Debian installed flawlessly over the net and runs my little webserver very
> well.
I have a similar problem when installing linux to my laptop. I overcome it by
creating a small partition on the drive and putting a copy of the dosutils
folder from the cd onto the drive. boot to that drive and then load linux from
the dosutils and go through the install from the cdrom.
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