RE: [aclug-L] Installation on Laptop

[John Alexander <john.alexander@xxxxxxxx>]

Another possibility is plink, or parallel link. Never done it myself, but
there are copious notes on it's use from the linux on laptops page.

ja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aclug-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Clint A. Brubakken
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 10:00 AM
> To: ACLUG List
> Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Installation on Laptop
>
>
> well you have two reasonable options.
>
> For Both first you install the base system with floppies (it takes 7 for
> debian) then if it has a network card you put the cd in another Linux
> machine and nfs mount it.
>
> or you can set up PPP and get the rest of the packages off the web.
>
> for debian instructions are on the website
> http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install
>
> --
> Clint Brubakken
> Computer Science Services Group, LLC
> Wichita, KS
> cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
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>
> 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.
> >
> > Mike McNown
> >
>
>