Re: Installing onto an old laptop
AG wrote:
> I have an old generic laptop which has Slackware 10.1 installed. It has
> access to the Internet as well as to a small LAN. The machine it is
> connected via a hub to is my main desktop/ workstation which runs Debian
> testing. The CD-ROM drive in the laptop does not work. This is a
> hardware issue, so installation via CD is not feasible.
>
> The laptop does have a couple of USB drive sockets, but I don't think
> that the BIOS is sufficiently modern to boot from a USB drive (the
> laptop was bought circa 2002 from a company that has since gone belly up).
>
> What is the best method for getting this laptop up and running in the
> 21st Century with Debian testing?
>
> Thanks for any ideas/ suggestions.
>
> AG
This sounds like a fun way to meet debootstrap. [1] Hopefully you have a
partition around you can play with. I've read about destroying swap to
get things going. Then once you have a very basic Debian system up and
running, reclaim the rest of the disk.
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en
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