No cdrom - install to CF?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: No cdrom - install to CF?
started by: jago25_98

Posted by jago25_98 on Mar. 29 2005,13:06

No cdrom available.

I'm hoping to install DSL to a compact flash card with something like

dd if=dsl.img of=/dev/sdb1

How do I roughly go about that?

Posted by Waterns on Mar. 29 2005,17:20

Is it a laptop? If it is then your best option would be either a single floppy boot and then download OR you might like to try out using a 2.5" to 3.5" converter. As for installing it onto a CF card, I believe the latest revision (1.0rc1) has a option under the system menu to do a frugal install.

Posted by jago25_98 on Mar. 30 2005,10:50

It's a computer I've built from old parts with only one working IDE channel.

On that channel I've put a CF to IDE convertor.

I have a CF reader/writer available to me so I hope to image a distro to the CF card using that.

The use for this computer will be for surfing and thinclient to save electricity and be silent.

Posted by green on May 13 2005,18:48

thinclient?