Re: Debian install to subnotebook
Gustaf Erikson writes:
> "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.
And the message M$ is sending us here is: Never install win2k on a computer
you actually want to use ;-)
> > 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!
Actually there's one more option - netboot, use Partition Magic to resize your
win2k partition and create new partitions for linux, then netboot->install.
AFAIK scsi zip-drives are also bootable, don't know if the USB zip-drive
uses the scsi emulation that's required for booting (parallel zip-drives
don't).
Last option; send it to me :-) (I want a vaio)
/Mathias
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