Re: Installing potato on a laptop
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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