Re: Old Laptop

[giupy <giuseppebellini@email.it>]

Loren A. Linden Levy ha scritto:

> I have installed two old laptops that way, you can get the floppy images here:
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> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc2/images/floppy/
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> It requires 3 floppies (boot,root and cdrom drivers) and the cd's .
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> It is prety self explanantory but if you need help just ask.
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> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:06:33 -0800
> Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:55:47PM -0500, jeremy pedersen wrote:
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> > > I have an old laptop that does not have BIOS support for booting from cd. I 
> > > am wondering, is there some way to create a boot floppy that can be used to 
> > > find my CD drive, so that I can boot the debian installation from CDs?
> > >      
> > Might try:
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> >  http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
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> > Bill Moseley
> > moseley@hank.org
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you can use an old potato distro wich has the install command that run 
from a dos/win boot disk, than you can "apt-cdrom add" your new cdset 
(something like sid) and upgrade your distro
i did it for my epson action note pro c