Re: [aclug-L] Installation on Laptop

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can do thihs with Debian.  If your CD-ROM is bootable, you're in
luck.  If not, you need to make the boot, rescue, and base disks.  You 
install this first part of the system from floppy.  Then, when you
reboot, you get to choose other options for the rest of the system --
NFS, FTP, etc.


-- John

Mike McNown <mdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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
> 

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John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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