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russf

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Posted: Mar. 06 2005,05:48

Hi All,

I just found DSL a couple days ago and I am really impressed with how clean and quick it is. I would like to try it on my IBM Thinkpad 240X laptop but it does not have a bootable CDROM. It only has an external USB CDROM. I was able to get Knoppix going on it using the Knoppix boot floppies, but when I tried the DSL boot floppy it did not find the USB CDROM. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Russ

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Posted: Mar. 23 2005,15:32

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!

Please read the info on the main site (damnsmalllinux.org) and under FAQ you will find a link that solves your problem:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/network-install.html

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.....I wanted to make a simple way to install DSL on older laptops that have NO CDROM......

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