Re: Boot floppies of RC1 broken for VAIO laptop
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 15:47 schrieb Douglas Tutty:
> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie:
> > > > On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
> > If your box supports booting from a USB floppy, would it boot from a USB
> > stick? If so forget about floppies and make a USB (hd-media) install
> > and put the netinst.iso on the stick. It works great. Instructions are
> > in the installation manual.
>
> Hmm....good point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick
> would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick
> option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look
> identical for the laptop (except the capacity).
>
> PXE does not work either. The vaio can boot from (USB) floppy drive,
> (expensive bootable Sony) ATAPI CDDRIVE, hdd.
Can it boot a grub-disk floppy?
Can you burn a CD? Or, on that nice hdd, make a 256 MB (or 1 GB if its
a large disk) partition. Put the hd-media and the netinst.iso there
following the long-way instructions for the hd-media. Boot that
partition and you're away.
Once things are installed, turn that partition into extra swap.
Good luck.
Doug.
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