Re: [aclug-L] Installation on Laptop

[Thomas Wallis <wallis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Mike McNown wrote:

> This is probably a dumb question, and the answer of obvious, but here goes...
> 
> I want to install Linux on an old 486 Toshiba laptop.  The laptop does not
> have a CD ROM.  The only media I have Linux on is CD.
> 
> The laptop currently is sitting collecting dust with Windows installed.  I
> would like to install Linux as the sole OS on this machine.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

        If you have Ethernet capability on the laptop, you could mount
your CD on some other LINUX system and do an NFS install.  

                                Tom Wallis
 > 
> Mike McNown
> 

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