Re: small laptop with only floppy drive
Hey Eric,
Can you tell me where I can find a backpack CD drive. I know I could
probably find one on ebay but I dont have any money to spend on such
stuff? Maybe some help?
All good solutions that I hadn't thought about. Thanks guys.
Brandon Richards
On Apr 4, 2005 12:07 PM, Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:37:40AM -0500, Brandon Richards wrote:
> > I have a small laptop with a 100 mhz processor not sure how much ram
> > but it only has a floppy drive on it. I was wanting to put debian on
> > it but not sure how to do it.
>
> Yet another option is to find an external CD drive that works with
> your laptop, and use discs that you download and burn on your desktop
> machine. I think the old Backpack CD drives that connect via the
> parallel port were well-supported by the install floppies.
>
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