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bigredgpk

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Posted: Dec. 07 2005,01:28

I have a Toshiba laptop with no Floppy drive and no CD-rom.

Can anyone throw me a bone with a method on how I can do the install? The laptop does have a NIC.

Thanks, Timmay

sarah

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Posted: Dec. 07 2005,13:33

Want to fill us in on the specs? I've done it on a crappy spec laptop, but depends on your specs which method I'd use.

Cheers and beers!
Sarah

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Posted: Dec. 07 2005,18:45

Hi, I have the same problem. I got an old PC, with Pentium 1 133 Mhz, 2Gb HDD (but I would like to keep a partition w/Windoze) and a CD-Rom drive and a FDD. Both of them non bootable.
Could I make a partitions in the HDD and install DSL on the HD?
And could I install a loader wich allows me to launch win or DSL?

I'm a Linux newbie and I'd' really appreciate a step by step help.
Thanks to you all

Andrea

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 07 2005,19:13

Several procedures are spelled out in the DSL Wiki available from our main page. In the search area try
floppy install
network install

bigredgpk

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Posted: Dec. 07 2005,20:04

Quote (roberts @ Dec. 07 2005,14:13)

Several procedures are spelled out in the DSL Wiki available from our main page. In the search area try
floppy install
network install

In order to do a network install i would have to have a floppy drive... But I don't have a floppy drive for the computer.

Is there a way to create a partition on the harddrive with a copy of the install CD, and then install DSL on to the remaining memory on the hard drive? i have a 6 gb drive.

Timmay

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