Re: Debian install to subnotebook
"Bruce Best (CRO)" <bestb@lao.on.ca> writes:
> Thanks for all your suggestions.
>
> To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install
> Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from
> within NT, i.e., it too would require a boot disk or bootable CD. It
> seems that Win2k won't easily budge.
Probably intentional.
> The best recommendation I have seen is to install DOS first, then
> install Win2k (on a FAT partition). The Win2k boot loader will then
> provide DOS as an option on boot. However, it doesn't seem possible
> to do this backwards, i.e., install DOS after Win2k.
I don't think this particular use case was considered by Microsoft :-)
>
> I think the best solution now is either pulling the hard drive and
> installing it temporarily in a desktop as Oivvio suggested (I actually
> happen to have one of those notebook HD adaptors), if my brother-in-law
> doesn't mind me pulling apart his brand-new notebook :).
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing" -- famous last words!
>
> Other than that, I was considering buying an external CDRW in any
> case. According to Sony, USB CD drives are NOT bootable, but
> PC-Card drives are, so should probably look at the latter.
IMHO, a CD[RW] is a must. You can't always get s/w from the net, some
games need CDs in the drive etc.
Good luck!
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