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Re: Installing debian. no CD drive, no floppy



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:02:07 +0200, Gedas <deeprest@chatsubo.lt> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have to install debian on a notebook that has neither CD nor floppy
> drives. There is an external CD drive but there is no possibility to
> boot from it. The computer has Windows XP in it so I can user some disk
> partitioning software to make space for my Debian. My question is how to
> start debian install? I'm thinking of installing debian on other machine
> and cloning the partition over the network. Is there anyone who has done
> something similar? Any recommended tools for linux and windows for that
> purpose?
> 
> Thanks

If you have a usb port, then you can use a usb stick and boot from it
and install.

raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Cornell University
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