floppy disk installForum: HD Install Topic: floppy disk install started by: Cid Posted by Cid on April 20 2004,03:34
hi, i'm new to damn small and i was wondering if it is possible to install it with floppies? i have an old machine that has no cd drive and want to get linux on it. so if there is a way to install over a network or with floppies i'd appreciate some help...thanks.
Posted by edard on April 20 2004,04:10
Cid, I copied the files from the CD to a small partition on my Windows machine then used DOS Interlnk/Intersvr to copy them to a 70MB partition on my 'floppy only" laptop with a parallel cable. Then made a boot floppy and did the dsl-hdinstall to the larger partition on the laptop. After the install I used mkswap and swapon to turn that 70MB partition into swapspace. Maybe not ideal but it worked for me. Hope this helps.
Posted by Tobbe on April 21 2004,06:04
Hi,I am in about the same situation and really need some help. I have an old Thinkpad 365x, without CD, and I have already installed a slakware version "Delilinux" and is connected to internet. I have w-get downloaded the DSL-iso to the same partition as Delilinux and I hope to be able to install DSL to the other partition using a floppy. I tried the options under F2 in the DSL usb-floppy but with no luck catching the DSL-iso. So, I would be grreateful for any advice, possible to understand for a real newbie Tobbe Posted by AwPhuch on April 30 2004,15:59
Hey guysI have sucessfully gotten DSL installed on a very old laptop with a floppy only, the method I am using works every time...I have put it on 5 times (tried dual boot with win95 and a bunch of other stuff as well) and the walkthru I posted in the HOWTO works every time < HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy > Hope this helps Brian AwPhuch |