Re: Laptop install
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is
> that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The
> solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard
> disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No,
> unfortunatly he can't boot from the CDROM. Not supported in the bios.
>From win 95, you should be able to do a loadlin from a dos prompt. I
don't remember the exact command line args, but you need to tell it where
the kernel image is and where the root filesystem is. The easiest thing
will be to do a floppy install (make the disks from win 95 and rawrite),
and start off using loadlin until you are comfortable with lilo to
overwrite your mbr and get a dual boot system.
For more details, you'll probably have to look at the install and loadlin
docs.
HTH,
Brandon
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