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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,22:39 QUOTE

Hi all.
First, i must say I'm (almost) totally new to linux, so I understand that there won't be probably one-click solutions for me, but much reading. It's just that any instructions i've tried to read on the subject blow me with terms and commands that i don't understand.
I have old Toshiba laptop (3110ct)
P-II 300mhz cpu, 128mb ram, 30gb hdd.

It is ultra slim model so it doesn't have nor floppy neither cd-rom. (to be precise, it has pcmia cardbus cd-rom, which doesn't support booting, and bios doesn't supprt cd-rom booting anyway.) It also doen't have network card, and can't boot from usb. I only have pcmia wifi card which is helpless.

I have dual-boot with win98 and win2000 at startup. So dos mode is accessible to me (when i press F8 in win98 and enter "command prompt only"..
My hard disk partition destribution is pretty complicated. So you will get better idea by seing it:

Disks C (win98) and F (win2k) are primary partitions, rest are extended partiotion. Disk C is active. Disk Z is separate swap partition for Win2000 (win2k swap file sits there)
Disks H and E are temporary and can be removed if needed. Also D can be resized to smaller one.

What I've done so far - is extracted the contents of the .iso file on c: drive.
No idea what to do next.
Please help.
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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,12:04 QUOTE

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install

That might be the way to do it. Ask if there is something unclear.
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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,12:07 QUOTE

Because you have not floppy neither cdrom you need boot DSL from Windows or DOS. This metod is called: Loadlin Install.
Please read: http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install
Sorry, i have not even experience with Loadlin Install.


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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,12:29 QUOTE

Loadlin will not work in Win2000. It should work in w98 but only if you start it in dos mode without drivers etc. - I think you can do this by pressing a key when booting (it may be F5 or F8).
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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,17:59 QUOTE

Press F8 and choose "safe mode command prompt", if I remember correctly.
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