HD Install :: HD Install on OLD IBM laptop from inside Windows?

I was thinking of maybe just installing the HD to the other laptop, bypassing the usb hookup altogether, and installing that way. Might that work?

I think the usb hookup is OK, you just need to boot the other laptop from the cd again then issue the commands I mentioned

Oh. I get you now. Sorry.

I'll give that a try. Thanks again. And in any event, I just looked at the HD in the new laptop, and it's so much newer than the other one, that the HD bay is too shallow and I couldn't install it anyway.

No dice. I think I'm having issues with the file path. Whenever I try to run the command to modify lilo.conf, it says "no such file or directory", and I've tried several file path combos, using sda, sda1, hda, hda1, /dev/media, etc. So I'm missing something, somewhere...

Can you use the emelFM file manager to navigate to lilo.conf? Or maybe you could use the "find" application on the right-click menu?

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