CD version gone?

[Kenneth Porter]

On Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:02 PM +0930 n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On 5/12/07, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do the computers have USB? If so, you could load a DVD image on an
>> external drive. They're getting pretty cheap now.
>>
>
> I think one might have USB, but the BIOS would be too old to allow
> booting from it.

You could boot from a CD with just the installer/rescue image (which is 
small) and use a "hard disk" installation with the DVD ISO image on the USB 
hard drive. I usually do upgrades this way, copying the image to the system 
to be upgraded, then requesting a hard disk install.