Re: A laptop installation challenge

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi again, AG:

On Saturday 31 October 2009 19:41:16 AG wrote:
> Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> > Hi, AG:
> >
> > On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote:
> >> Tim Tebbit wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
> >> allows HD, CD or floppy).  It requires something to boot first before it
> >> can mount additional files such a USB stick.
> >
> > Does it support booting from network (PXE?)? What other boot up methods
> > are supported? (leaving appart floppy and hard disk).
>
> Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD.  The BIOS does not
> (appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway.

I'd say you are closed to these options:
 * Find an external USB-based CD or HD drive.
 * Find the way to open the case to extract the internal HD.
 * Find a different computer with a floppy disk drive.
Lacking any of these (you migth buy them, rent them or find a friend who lend 
them) you don't own a laptop but a brick.