Laptops :: PCMCIA with Portégé 3480
Don't bother with your PCMCIA CDRW.
Boot up in your other OS and copy the contents of the DSL CD disk over to a FAT or FAT32 partition.
Hopefully, your FAT / FAT32 partition can be located as your first hard drive partition.
Then DSL boot floppy will find the files and it will use them as if your hard drive partition is a fake CDROM.
Good Luck.
nice idea and i read this often in threads but i have a little problem with this:
my partition table: (all four primary and the 1,2 with data)
1: NTFS
2: NTFS
3: ext2
4: swap
and now call me again another idea 
Sounds like you need to do some repartitioning...
this is NOT realizeable, why? this four partitions are all PRIMARY and the two ntfs have data and i would not want to reinstall them, also please help my otherwise, i thought this board is full of linux freaks
Greez LordCalf
i have a idea to do:
a bootdisc from debian all i need is the network driver
the only problem is how i connect to my computer cd drive and how i can start the install programm from cd over network ?!?!
I have DSL 0.8.3 on CD
Hope you can help me with this 
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