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Re: Installing potato on a laptop



I think on debian-cd's is a from dos bootable linuxkernel.
It's named when i right remember loadlin.com or loadlin.exe.
Maybe this is a possibility.

Matth

On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote:
> you can conveniently install from a mounted NFS file system (your mounted CD)
> exported from your existing Linux box. Redhat has a disk image bootnet.img you can
> download, and boot from, it will prompt you for the NFS file system after boot. It
> should work the same over slip or plip. Use pcmcia.img if you are installing to a
> notebook with pcmcia ethernet card.
> 
> I am sure Debian has similar boot utility for such tasks. Does anyone know about
> them?
> 
> good luck.
> Ben
> 
> Benjamin F. Zhou
> Financial Sciences
> zhoub@fisci.com
> 
> Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
> 
> > Once upon a time, I heard voy1d say
> >
> > > I have a mate who wants me to install linux on his system.  Unfortunatly for
> > > some reason the floppy and cdrom can't be used at the same time.
> > > The url for his system is at the following,
> > > http://www.olecomp.com/ihdesk/portab_u/EchosP/EchoP100DEndUser.htm
> > > I guess I would have to boot into DOS and run the install from there.
> > >
> > If you have another Linux box. Try install via plip or even ethernet
> > interface. There is a document for plip somewhere, linuxgazette had
> > it about a year ago.
> >
> > Chanop
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