On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:38:28PM +0000, andy wrote: > Good day > > I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to > install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected > to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can > exploit this arrangement to enable me to install onto the laptop? > there are several methods: you could use a boot floppy to help you boot from the cd. You could use a floppy image to install from, but I'm not sure if that's really still supported or not. You could set up a dhcp/bootp server on your other machine (if the laptop will boot over the network). You could pull the hard-drive from the laptop and using a relatively inexpensive adaptor, install to it from your other machine. check the installation manual for more methods. A
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