Re: Installing debian. no CD drive, no floppy
* Gedas:
> 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?
You can do a PXE install if the laptop supports it:
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianInstallerNetbootPXE
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=818
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